THE High Court has been asked to make orders preventing the State from administering Covid-19 vaccines or booster shots to children aged between five and eleven years of age until full information...

THE UNIVERSITY of Limerick has agreed to purchase the vacant Dunnes Stores site for €8m to provide a “new riverside city centre campus”. A spokesperson for the university said that it...

THE head of the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital Limerick and past president of the Intensive Care Society, Dr Catherine Motherway, has been named Limerick Person of the Year for 2020. At a...

THE University of Limerick has confirmed that it plans to open a city centre campus by 2022 �� a move which will bring 2,000 students and 100 staff. The Limerick Leader can exclusively reveal the...

LIMERICK based biomedical company Regeneron is developing a new treatment which it hopes will be used to combat coronavirus. The deadly condition, which originated in Wuhan, China, has claimed the...

TRIBUTES have been paid following the sudden death of rock star and Limerick woman Dolores O’Riordan. While the circumstances of the 46-year-old's death are as yet unknown, it has been confirmed...

HOLLYWOOD celeb Jamie Dornan and pop superstar Niall Horan have been officially added to the star-studded line-up of the JP McManus Pro-Am in Limerick next year. Hosted in the luxurious, award-winn...

LIMERICK are All Ireland hurling champions for the first time in 45 years. John Kiely's heroes were 3-16 to 2-18 winners over reigning champions Galway in front of a sell-out 82,000 in Croke Park....

The incident caused panic among the community in the Corbally area

ÁINE Fitzgerald has been appointed the first female Managing Editor of the Limerick Leader. A talented journalist with almost 20 years’ experience in the media, she will take up her posit...

GRAHAM Rowntree is set to be confirmed as the new head coach at Munster Rugby, the Limerick Leader has learned. Leader Sport understands that Rowntree, who is currently the forwards coach at Munster,...

LIMERICK hurling star Peter Casey has been cleared to play in the All-Ireland senior hurling final. The corner forward successfully appealed his proposed two match suspension this Thursday evening....

MEMBERS of Limerick’s Muslim community gathered at Arthur’s Quay park to clean the city, and hand goodies to the public. It was all part of the celebration of Eid, the festival which marks...

Limerick star hurler Peter Casey and three of his friends have taken drug tests to clear their names, after insinuations on social media that they had taken drugs while on a night out in a pub in...

Geraldine Aspinall, Assistant Director at St. Ita’s Community Hospital, Newscastle West, Co. Limerick describes in the video above the enormous benefit a €100,000 donation from Niall Horan ...

A HURLING fan who was injured after trying to put up a Limerick flag was “beaming” after receiving a special visit in the hospital this morning. Captain Cian Lynch, Barry Nash, Tom Morriss...

PLANNING permission has been granted to the JP McManus-backed Limerick rugby museum by An Bord Pleanala. The body has granted planning to the International Rugby Experience on O’Connell Street, ...

THROUGHOUT our lives, we’ll often have people tell us to ‘go with our gut feeling’ and to ‘trust our gut’. It’s a weird but amazing thing, that our bodies speak to ...

THE WOMAN who helped the Irish women's hockey team secure their first ever appearance in the Olympics, has been crowned Limerick Person of the Year 2019. Roisin Upton, 25, was one of the key players...

SUPERSTARS Niall Horan and Lewis Capaldi have been spotted in a Limerick pub. The Irish and Scottish singers were seen soaking up the atmosphere in a licensed premises in Limerick, after Lewis...

MINISTER for Justice Simon Harris says the keeping of transgender inmates in female prisons is not an issue of “gender or sex” but one of “safety”. The minister made his commen...

ON THE EVE of the All-Ireland hurling final, Richie English sat with his father, Paddy, in hospital and pictured what it would be like to bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup to his bedside. “I said to ...

THE Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) has received a huge boost this morning after it emerged it was being granted university status. The college, which has campuses across the region, has...

THE UNIVERSITY of Limerick is looking to develop a massive, multi-storey complex in Limerick city centre following the announcement that it is purchase the vacant Dunnes Stores site for €8m. That...

Limerick hurling’s most high-profile supporter talks to Alan English about one of the greatest days in his life

JAMIE Dornan and Niall Horan are among the famous faces who have teed off at the JP McManus Pro-Am in Adare Manor this morning. Niall said he was delighted to have been invited by JP McManus to the...

RORY McIlroy said he is enjoying meeting up with Jamie Dornan and Niall Horan in Limerick instead of Los Angeles. Rory was chatting to fellow Ulsterman Tommy Bowe of Virgin Media. Many's the time...

WHAT a display from Limerick in this 0-27 to 1-22 All Ireland senior hurling quarter final win over Kilkenny. From start to finish this was a rip-roaring contest in Thurles with Limerick finding the...

THE first ever woman president of an Irish university has been appointed at the University of Limerick, it has been announced. Following an open competition, the Chancellor of UL’s Governing Aut...

LIMERICK singer-songwriter Emma Langford has been awarded the inaugural Dolores O’Riordan Music Bursary, it was announced this Monday night. The bursary, launched by Dolores’ family in con...

LIMERICK are back in the All Ireland senior hurling final after an 11-year absence. John Kiely's men won an extra time semi final thriller this Sunday in Croke Park to beat Cork 3-32 to 1-31. Two...

THE University of Limerick is to confer an honorary doctorate on Vicky Phelan in recognition of her “exceptional commitment to improving women’s healthcare in Ireland”. Annacotty wom...

The two alleged violent incidents are both before the courts

LIMERICK Rose Sinéad Flanagan has been crowned this year’s 2019 International Rose of Tralee, making her the third Limerick Rose to bag the title in the 60-year running of the festival. A...