A former aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo was among five people who died when a driver lost control and struck two other vehicles on Long Island.

Tucked away towards the back of Westbury, off Sarsfield Road in Cork’s Wilton is St Catherine, or No 1 Westbury Crescent.

Getting to the church on time for her wedding yesterday was unusually complicated for Rachel Quinlivan.

Seventeen child care workers at a Limerick city creche continued a sit-in last night following the sudden closure of the private facility.

Tommy Barker finds a house that ticks the boxes for traders-up and traders-in at Westbury on Beaumont Drive.

Padraig Harrington couldn’t be more different from the traditional Irish male. At the first sign of illness he visits a doctor, says Clodagh Finn.

The flooding of 14 houses in Limerick last Saturday night when a canal burst its banks has sparked a war of words between Limerick City and County Council and Waterways Ireland.

A 53-year-old woman whose life revolved around her post office job at Limerick GPO was jailed yesterday for 18 months for stealing from customer accounts after she did not get a promotion.

As a mother kissed her newborn baby in St Munchin’s Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick, she was told her daughter was dying in her arms, an inquest heard.

THE UNDERSTATED quality of a home like Westbury would sell it to almost any house hunter looking for a comfortable place to retreat to.

Up to 150,000 people are out on streets up and down the country in protest against water charges.

Thousands of people are set to take to the streets across Ireland tomorrow in a series of water charges protests.

Honeymooner Anni Dewani was supposed to be kidnapped and ransomed, defence lawyers told Cape Town High Court yesterday, where her murder trial is being heard.

Gardaí are investigating after a 25-year-old woman was killed in a crash in Co. Cork last night.

A Limerick taxi driver has failed in his appeal against his conviction for raping a young woman he drove home from a nightclub.

A SPRAWLING housing estate has no operational public lighting and light fittings were left hanging off and “blowing in the wind”.

Val McDermid’s perspective as a woman is key to her ability to write crime fiction, but the genre is more than it seems, she tells Declan Burke.

THE preliminary census figures for Limerick City confirm that the city is in serious decline and in urgent need of revitalisation.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Phil Hogan’s decision to reject the proposed transfer of five square kilometres of land into a new authority for Limerick City and County will ensure that Clare Co Council retains €260,000 in commercial rates.

Thousands of households around the country are without water today as crews battle to repair leaks, restore supplies and replenish reservoir levels.

THE Government was warned yesterday the mid-west was dying on its feet and action was urgently needed to turn around the economic fortunes of its Limerick city hub.

OMINOUS signals had been coming from the Limerick Regeneration Agency in recent weeks.

Water will be shut off in Tulla and Broadford in Co Clare today from 11am to 4pm and again tonight from 8pm to 8am.

The ESB has confirmed it is to release more water from Parteen Weir.

Anxious communities along the banks of the River Shannon were tonight bracing themselves for devastating floods after waters reached record heights.

RESIDENTS were bracing themselves last night as the lower Shannon threatened to burst its banks for a second day and with Co Clare under a severe flood warning.

A €12m emergency fund for flooding victims was tonight dismissed as too little to cope with the devastation.

Flood response efforts are continuing across the Mid-West, with local authority staff, fire and rescue crews, the ESB, the army and the Gardaí providing 24-hour response to the flooding crisis on the ground.

The county council in Clare has issued a warning of further flooding along the lower River Shannon over the coming days.

A Limerick taxi driver has been convicted of raping a passenger as he drove her home.

A leading British geologist was arrested on suspicion of his wife’s murder after he survived a suicide pact between the devoted couple, his family said today.

A GRIEVING couple who placed the body of their dead son in a rucksack before plunging to their deaths from cliffs at Beachy Head were named yesterday by police.

A JURY was discharged last night after failing to reach a verdict in a case where a man was charged in connection with a sawn-off shotgun attack.

THERE were renewed calls yesterday for increased patrols in the northern suburbs of Limerick that lie in Clare.

The funeral of the Ukranian teenager who was stabbed to death on the outskirts of Limerick city at the weekend has taken place in Co Clare.

SCHOOL friends and members of the soccer team Roman Vysochan played with joined hundreds of mourners last night for the removal of the remains of the teenage student who was stabbed to death in Limerick at the weekend.

A 16-year-old boy remains in garda custody this morning in connection with the fatal stabbing of another teenager in Limerick over the weekend.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a 16-year-old in connection with the fatal stabbing of another teenager.

British army bomb disposal experts carried out a third controlled explosion at the home of a 19-year-old terror suspect today.

A British army bomb disposal team carried out a second controlled explosion at the home of a 19-year-old terror suspect today.

CHANGES in the Garda management of outlying areas of Limerick city will pose a threat to a number of neighbourhoods located across the Clare boundary, it was claimed yesterday.

Two of Dublin’s best known hotels could be up for sale in the New Year.

ANGRY residents stopped traffic on the outskirts of Limerick yesterday to protest at the condition of a road they say is very dangerous.

BABIES in Limerick are already weekly church goers long before they are baptised.