INSPIRATIONAL cancer fundraiser Loretto Farrell will visit Limerick later this month during the final leg of her three day motorcycle charity run for St Luke’s Hospital.

Former Clare All-Ireland winning manager Ger Loughnane will officially launch the Walk of Life in aid of Milford Hospice this Thursday at the Woodlands Hotel in Adare.

NATIONAL charity Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind have issued a thank you to its many volunteers in Limerick for helping to support the Shades campaign, which has raised more than €143k here.

DICK and Jessie Griffin held a triple anniversary celebration in Bulgaden Castle but didn’t get one present.

IT WOULD certainly have come in handy for the besieging Confederate army in 1641, but today a new rear entrance to the Desmond Castle in Newcastle West will be used for a far more prosperous end.

WHISPER it, but the rain at the start of the week was welcome.

GROWING up, funnyman Jon Kenny had a huge interest in fashion.

COUNTY Limerick TD Dan Neville has called for an increase in the funding of a key office recording suicide statistics to €12m annually.

WITH just eight weeks to go before they rev up their Model T pick-up trucks and head off around Ireland, the Drive to Survive campaigners have raised over €30,000 for hospice care.

NEWCASTLE West needs to be given new priority status to counter fears that a city-dominated council could neglect the town, place its development “on the hind teat” and force local business away.

A NEW chapter in education has been marked in Kilfinane with the official opening and blessing of the town’s state-of-the art primary school, Scoil Fhionain.

YOU DON’T have to be a motorcycle enthusiast to take part in CARI’s bike run as you could win a motorbike.

THE people of Croom and Ballingarry are this week extending a Céad Míle Fáilte to long lost relatives and friends from Chicago and Washington who they are welcoming home as part of the Gathering celebrations.

The eighth annual River of Dreams Quilt Exhibition is currently taking place in the former Franciscan church on Henry Street.

IT WAS a fantastic weekend for Limerick’s 2013 and 1973 hurlers.

TENS of thousands of people from Limerick and beyond will descend on the Redemptorist church in the city from this Friday for the annual solemn novena.

A CULTURAL milestone will be reached next week as the White House poetry revival marks its 500th consecutive week.

A CONTENTIOUS plan to build a youth centre in the heart of Ballynanty has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanala.

A PEDESTRIAN crossing can be a deathtap if cars are driving at speed through it, says Cllr Brigid Teefy.

SCHOOLDAYS in Croom are about to be relived by past pupils across the globe thanks to a new book which is being launched to mark 150 years of national school education in the town.