The uncovering of a cash laundering operation in which almost €1.5 million in cash was being dug out of a field and cleaned in a tumble drier resulted in a Limerick man being jailed for three years yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing a major investigation into a bizarre attempted child snatch in Co Limerick.

Limerick gardaí say they are satisfied a girl aged 14, had sex with a 17-year-old in a van, parked at the city’s Crescent Shopping Centre.

GARDAÍ believe they may have smashed a racket involving the theft of phone cabling from Eircom poles.

A FEMALE patient at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick got a rude awakening during her stay — her purse was stolen while she slept.

TWO petrol bombs found stashed in the front garden of a house in Southill were intended for an attack on the nearby home of a key state witness due to give evidence against people in an organised crime trial, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A MAN arrested on Monday of last week in connection with a “Tiger” abduction which led to €105,000 being extorted from Newcastle West sub-post office, has been released without charge.

A MAN described as a “foot soldier” in Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang was jailed yesterday for six years for his role in a planned retaliation gun attack in the continuing city feud.

THERE were dramatic scenes outside Limerick courthouse yesterday when a group of more than 50 men, women and children tried to attack two men who were brought there on murder charges in relation to the shooting dead of Des Kelly and Breda Waters over a week ago.

GARDAÍ yesterday moved a Transit van from the grounds of Roxboro Garda Station after its owner occupied it to stage a hunger strike.

A MAN found with an Uzi submachine gun in a Limerick hotel was yesterday jailed for 10 years.

A MAJOR Garda transfer commenced in Limerick yesterday as up to seven units, including the immigration service, began to move out of the cramped Henry Street divisional headquarters to the adjoining Estuary House.

TWO gardaí were hospitalised yesterday when their patrol car was reportedly rammed during a high-speed pursuit on the outskirts of Limerick.

THE school teacher who died after a freak accident in which a tree branch fell on her as she walked on a Limerick street, had only recently got married, it emerged yesterday.

SIX teenage boys have been interviewed by gardaí following a claim by a 14-year-old girl that she was raped on open ground near Roxboro Road in Limerick.

DAYS after making a big heroin find at a house in Limerick, drugs squad detectives returned early yesterday to the same house and found a much larger quantity of heroin.

A MAN was arrested yesterday after a vicious mugging last week when an elderly woman was stabbed during a visit to a Limerick cemetery.

A BUSINESSMAN was questioned by gardaí yesterday after night-long searches, involving chases on foot across miles of open countryside, for two men that fled the scene of a fatal road accident.

HUNDREDS gathered in a Limerick church last night for a candlelit vigil in remembrance of murdered rugby captain Shane Geoghegan.

Guns, ammunition and drugs were recovered today by detectives investigating the murder of innocent gangland victim Shane Geoghegan.

SUPERINTENDENT Frank O’Brien who is heading the Shane Geoghegan murder hunt said yesterday they had received “very helpful information” following Tuesday night’s RTÉ Crimecall appeal by the mother and fiancée of the dead rugby captain.

THE Director of Public Prosecution has instructed gardaí in Limerick to commence legal proceedings against the Southill shebeen that has been operating since last April.

A MAN, living rough and crushed to death in a refuse collection truck, had chosen a homeless lifestyle, his family said yesterday.

LIMERICK’S first citizen has played down an incident in which he was verbally abused over his strong criticism of feuding gangs.

A GARDA raid on the Southill shebeen sparked an incident that led to the man running the premises being summonsed yesterday at Limerick District Court.

THE mentally ill Nigerian man who has been moved between prison, a Garda station cell and a hotel over the past five days was admitted to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) in Dundrum last night.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has accepted an invitation to launch Limerick’s €700 million regeneration plan later this month.

THE psychic who accurately predicted that the remains of abducted Limerick teenager Richard “Happy” Kelly would be found in a lake in Co Clare has said that he has given four names of those involved to gardaí.

The body of a man in his early 30s has been found in Limerick.

LIMERICK gardaí believe a rifle found in searches in Southill was the gun used by a sniper who opened fire on detectives last Sunday.

Ammunition has been seized by gardaí investigating reports of a shooting in Limerick.

A SPECIAL place of prayer for a Limerick community has been desecrated in a violent attack of vandalism.

A MAN who burst into a house in Limerick firing at the occupant with a pump-action shotgun walked free from Limerick Circuit Court yesterday.

A HUGE cache of ammunition was found yesterday by Limerick gardaí during a planned search in Southill, Limerick city.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating a hoax call that prompted a major search for a reportedly ‘dumped body’.

A 16-YEAR-OLD Limerick girl miraculously escaped death yesterday when she was accidentally shot by friends doing target practice with a powerful handgun at an all-night house party.

A STREAKER who delayed a Limerick train for 20 minutes yesterday was last night being medically examined by a doctor.

A LIMERICK family escaped injury when shots were fired at their home late on Saturday night.

A LIMERICK family escaped injury when shots were fired at their home late on Saturday night.

MORE than 30 residents had to brave sub-zero temperatures early yesterday when apartments were evacuated in Limerick following a blitz of wheelie bin fires.

LIMERICK gardaí were yesterday trying to hunt down a teenage rapist who viciously attacked a woman in her 40s as she walked home.

A team of Garda detectives was drafted to Limerick today to investigate the shooting of a former city councillor.

Gardaí are treating as suspicious a fire at a house in the Ballinacurra area of Limerick this morning.