Eight Limerick pubs and off-licences were found selling alcohol to under- aged persons in a Garda operation carried out over the first nine months of this year.

THE head of the Limerick Garda division said yesterday while CCTV played an enormous role in tackling serious crime, its widespread deployment in housing estates was not the best way to tackle antisocial behaviour.

THE head of the Limerick Garda Division yesterday pledged to continue using the new anti-gang legislation to tackle serious criminality in the city.

SHOOTINGS and violent deaths in Limerick have dropped dramatically this year, according to official Garda figures.

TOWNS and villages throughout the mid-west are being thrown into lawlessness by “neighbours from hell”.