TEACHERS and students in St Munchin’s College, Limerick, have rallied around sick children and adults to raise funds for three charitable causes.

YOUNG twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf who were separated in complex surgery in London in April are to receive a civic reception at Cork City Hall next week.

NURSES yesterday served 21 days’ strike notice on the Health Service Executive (HSE) after voting overwhelmingly to fight for better pay and working hours.

A woman and a young boy today plunged 600ft to their deaths off the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast.

A young man has died in hospital from injuries he sustained when he fell out of a moving car in Co Galway earlier this week.

FIVE people — including two children — were killed in weekend car crashes, bringing the number of people who have died on the State’s roads this year to 112.

The driver of a dumper truck died after he was flung from his vehicle in Co Galway, gardaí said today.

An 18-year-old man has died of his injuries following a road accident in Galway yesterday morning.

Ambulance drivers in Galway have begun an unofficial two-hour stoppage to protest against staff shortages.

A 49-year-old woman has died following an accident near Loughrea in Co Galway.

BREAST cancer screening will be in place for women in Carlow, Kilkenny and Waterford by next year and for women nationwide by the end of 2005.

A COUPLE’S wedding plans have ended in tragedy after one was killed and the other seriously injured in a Bank Holiday weekend crash.

ACTOR Richard Harris died last night at University College Hospital in London, a spokesman for the family said.

Richard Harris is "responding very well" to treatment for cancer.

A murder investigation is underway in Limerick into the death of a 25-year-old man two weeks ago.