There was a shootout before Nicky Kehoe was arrested. It all happened at the home of wealthy businessman Galan Weston in Co Wicklow on August 7, 1983.

DANIEL Pearce — aka up and coming UK DJ Eats Everything — has always been ambitious, writes Ed Power.

Fizzy drinks-makers beware! A key part of their target market — the children of Ireland — are on the warpath.

Six UK teenagers had a lucky escape after almost getting cut off by the sea while searching for Pokémon Go characters.

Cork Church of Ireland and UCC marched into round two of the men’s Irish Senior Cup but the alarming decline in Cork Harlequins’ fortunes continues.

EGYPT: Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were left outraged after a cleric allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

For success, Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs has two simple rules.

The four-year-old killed when an out-of-control tipper truck careered down a hill near a primary school has been named as Mitzi Rosanna Steady.

Donal MacIntyre’s TV3 programme Breaking Crime made a valid point about the need to tackle petty youth crime in disadvantaged areas of Limerick but it was not a balanced portrayal of the current feeling in the city, says Robert McNamara.

Even Daniel O’Connell was celebrating on Friday night when a Mervue United winner sent Limerick FC back to the Premier Division for the first time since 1994.

The vandals who caused €50,000 worth of damage to memorial headstones in Limerick’s Mount St Lawrence cemetery (Irish Examiner, Jul 17) must be tried in the Circuit Court so that a deterrent sentence may be imposed.

Intimidation is a very powerful and secret weapon used by dangerous people.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Prime Minister David Cameron will today publish plans for the development of British-Irish relations for the next decade.

The airport previously owned by high-flying businessman Jim Mansfield is being sold at a down-to-earth price of €3 million.

THE chief of the Limerick Regeneration Agencies should apologise for saying that all the good people have left the troubled estates in the city.

THE 14-year-old girl deprived of a liver transplant due to failures in the Irish system has said she is not angry but “just annoyed” that she missed out on the life-changing transplant.

THE father of a Co Leitrim teenager who needs a liver transplant said he has been reassured that there is no need to relocate his family to Dublin or London to ensure her place on the waiting list for a donor organ.

Heartbroken Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte was profoundly moved today during an emotional gathering with the Dalai Lama, he revealed.

THE proposed location for a new National Children’s Hospital is on a site belonging to the man-in-the-cupboard’s ‘alma Mater’ where he served his time as an accountant before becoming Taoiseach.

A man has been arrested and a sawn-off shotgun has been recovered following searches in Limerick.

THE use of “ready-to-go” mobile phones must be regulated to help curb the activities of criminal gangs, a leading judge has warned.

JOHN KINSELLA’S case is unique in many ways.

A Meath aviation broker known as “The Boxer” will be sentenced later for conspiring to import €7m of heroin and cocaine from Belgium.

ALMOST a day elapsed before the emergency services were alerted to the disappearance of a helicopter, found crashed, with two crew dead on board.

FURTHER intimidation of the family of murdered Limerick businessman Roy Collins has led his father to call for the internment of the McCarthy-Dundon gang.

THEIR tattoos are as ambiguous as they are elaborate.

THE former O’Curry Street police station in Limerick — once a mission for seamen —would make an ideal location for a museum dedicated to Limerick’s maritime history.

THE Claret Jug coveted by golfers the world over made a return journey to Dublin last night as Open champion Pádraig Harrington came home to a hero’s welcome.

Gardaí have arrested six people in connection with the murder of James Cronin in Limerick earlier this year.

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

The trial of four men accused of murdering a nightclub bouncer in Limerick City five years ago has been put off until next Monday.

IRELAND is widely regarded as the home of the horse which plays a significant role in the social and economic life of the country.

AN INTERNAL Customs review of security at the country’s smaller airports has endorsed the system being used.

POPULAR youth-driven website Bebo says it will use its experience of Northern Irish sectarianism to combat Limerick teenagers going online to stoke the city’s violent family feuds.

LIMERICK’S teenage gangs are using the Bebo social networking website to live out their fantasies of becoming gun-touting crime lords.

It has been revealed that a private Co Kildare airport has been facilitating foreign flights without any legal permission.

A MAJOR review of security at the country’s private airports established in the wake of a plane flying out of Dublin with €10 million worth of drugs, is due to report within the next six weeks, Finance Minister Brian Cowen has said.

THE decision of the British government to stand down what are referred to as ‘home’ battalions as part of a normalisation process in the Six Counties will only serve to swell the ranks of the loyalist paramilitaries.

THE no-warning bombing attacks on London by suspected Islamic fundamentalists is an indication of what could happen here if the Government continues its military and political alliance with Britain.

A STUDY out yesterday warned of a unique “corridor of disadvantage” and social divide in Limerick city.

A STUDY out today warns of a unique “corridor of disadvantage” and social divide in Limerick city.

Two men, who were refused bail on firearms charges, are both involved in an ongoing Limerick feud, a special court sitting heard.

THE use of an unsuitable landing technique and failure to heed advice about crosswinds led to an accident involving a light aircraft at Knock Airport.

The British government was warned today it should not interfere with a new report into controversial murders involving alleged security force collusion in Northern Ireland and the Ireland.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair got a taste of what could be a tough week ahead today when he was heckled for his policy on Iraq.

Actor and comedian Rik Mayall was banned from driving for 90 days today after admitting speeding on a British motorway at 113mph.

Harry Potter fan Heather Lawver is organising a boycott of Potter merchandise because of legal action threatened by Warner Brothers over her website.