A 41-year-old woman - charged with the murder of a father of three in Limerick - is to appear before Limerick District Court this morning.

A woman in her 40s and three others, a female and two males in their 20s, were being held by gardaí in Limerick last night after they raided a city centre apartment where they found a pipe bomb.

THE man who died after being impaled on railings when he jumped from the fourth floor of a fire-engulfed apartment building in Limerick has been named as Brian Power Close.