Louay Kila continued working as a doctor after he raped and assaulted the nurse and was only voluntarily suspended from the list of medical practitioners a year later.
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has purchased a 44-acre site in Raheen, located just 2km from University Hospital Limerick, with plans to develop a new facility.
A Limerick gangster has been connected to an international scheme to smuggle military-grade weapons from Europe after his travel document was discovered in a vehicle used for importing guns.
It’s a ruthless business, this management lark. You have to be tough as nails, to the point of belligerence. No room for sentiment. Even less for platitudes.
Three women have been jailed for a violent attack on Christina McCarthy, a grandmother in Limerick, in December 2019. McCarthy was left with permanent facial scarring after being beaten and slashed in her home.
A man has been arrested in Limerick, Ireland, after authorities seized €1.5 million worth of cocaine and cannabis. This operation is part of ongoing efforts by Limerick gardaí to target drug dealers in the region.
Twenty families in an apartment block in Limerick are facing eviction after receiving termination notices from their landlord, a week before the government's new rental rules were implemented, which is seen as a direct result of the changes.
Stephen Power was sentenced to six years in Limerick Circuit Criminal Court for beating a woman in front of her children and stabbing her boyfriend. The court handed down the sentence this morning.
Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she could not immediately give timelines or costings on her plans to develop a newly purchased greenfield site that would develop a second hospital…
Plans to build 10 new self-catering lodges at Adare Manor are shining a spotlight on a major question facing Limerick as it prepares to host the prestigious 2027 Ryder Cup – does the region have…
Residents have reported hearing fresh explosions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Manama today, as Iran continues to fire missiles at countries in the Middle East where US troops are stationed.
Jamie Long, a Limerick man charged in connection with €1.5 million cocaine and cannabis seizures, was refused bail after reportedly throwing his charge sheet in a toilet bowl.
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has recouped more than €1 million following the sale of properties linked to criminals, including two houses in Limerick connected to gangster Kieran Keane jnr.
In the latest in a long line of Irish tussles at fly-half, Jack Crowley takes over from Sam Prendergast at Twickenham
In the summer of 1979 Irish rugby jumped off a lower shelf in the nation’s sports shopand landed front and centre. This wasn’t prompted by a dramatic development on the field, rather it was a selection decision. Tony Ward, voted the first European Player of the Year two months earlier, was dropped. He had won the award largely for his dazzling form in that season’s Five Nations Championship. Then, ahead of the First Test on Ireland’s tour of Australia, he was canned. It made the six o’clock news.
Ward was a gifted footballer. He would go on to play in the League of Ireland for Limerick United FC, starring for them against Southampton in the Uefa Cup. He looked the part: stocky, sallow, not only could he shoot the lights out but he could step off either foot, leaving opponents on their rear end. If Ireland had a catwalk then Wardy would have been a model.
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Approximately 20 families in Limerick city are facing eviction from an apartment block after receiving termination notices from their landlord just a week before new government rental rules came into effect.
Just days after the Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Paul Connell issued guidelines banning wakes, with open coffins, in parish churches, a Limerick priest has maintained his strong criticism, saying the rules are “regrettable and very problematic.”
Researchers in Limerick, through the Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT), are working to reframe the conversation around suicide and equip communities with practical tools to respond to suicide crises.
The Irish government plans to acquire the former International Rugby Experience property on O'Connell Street in Limerick, transforming it into a permanent 'women's museum'.