Before yesterday Limerick footballers had merely tilted at the big two of Munster football. There had been gallant defeats, an U21 victory, good league runs, enough to earn them condescending pats on ...

The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its… ...

A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so ...

Limerick felt exotic compared to rural Wicklow when I was growing up but then I went to Czechoslovakia, writes ELAINE BYRNE THE FALL of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago symbolised the wider downfall of ...

The county structure must be one of the greatest inhibitors to good governance in Ireland. In local government we take the view that every county is an island. Hence every county wants ‘its own’ of ...

When Liam Lenihan was Limerick county chairman around the turn of the decade, there was flying shrapnel from the various wars still whizzing through the air, even in the push for peace. You would have ...

Limerick's odds shorten on a successful All-Ireland defence as Premier men find them just too hot to handle in closing stages Tipperary’s Padraic Maher is knocked on to the ground by this collision ...

"On Monday, April 14, there began in Limerick City a strike protest against military tyranny, which because of its dramatic suddenness, its completeness and the proof it offered that workers' control ...