It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.

Celebrity TV chef Kevin Dundon is cooking a storm, with his food and hotel business on course to record more than a five-fold increase in profits to €260,000 this year.

Trying to live a normal life in the face of growing gangland threats, mid-west correspondent Jimmy Woulfe talks to families hit by Limerick’s bloody feud as it reaches its 10th anniversary.

THE leader of one of Limerick’s notorious criminal gangs will walk free from prison this morning, a move likely to raise tensions among the feuding criminal factions in the city.

CONTROVERSIAL Limerick solicitor John Devane yesterday claimed his intervention between Limerick feuding gangs has been the “‘catalyst”’ for a reported peace deal.

THE sprawling housing estates of Moyross and St Mary’s Park were under virtual garda lockdown last night following the murder earlier in the day of Noel Campion in Thomondgate.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) last night promised further action on Limerick’s feuding crime gangs after it was allowed to seize the home of convicted criminal Brian Collopy.