AS three major players in Limerick’s ongoing gang feud commenced long prison sentences in recent days following prosecutions at the Special Criminal Court and Limerick Circuit Court, a fourth gang figure left prison in England after serving five-and-a-half years for a gun offence.

A MAN believed to be Limerick’s biggest drugs operator was in custody last night after gardaí stormed a huge heroin packaging operation near Moyross.

NINE Limerick men remained in custody last night after one of the biggest Garda operations ever mounted against organised crime in Ireland.

GARDAÍ are unlikely to take action on sinister messages posted on the YouTube website by leading members of Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang, according to sources last night.

THE home of a high-profile associate of Limerick’s McCarthy-Dundon gang came under attack early yesterday when it was raked by machine-gun fire.

ARMED members of the Garda Regional Response Unit monitored the funeral of Limerick crime boss Philip Collopy yesterday, as a horse-drawn hearse bearing an aluminium casket made its way through the city centre.

A LIMERICK gangland figure who shot himself on Saturday remained on a life support machine last night.

SPECULATION intensified in Limerick last night that a major breakthrough has been made in the Shane Geoghegan murder investigation.

A WOMAN is suspected of playing a central role in the murder of Limerick rugby captain, Shane Geoghegan.

NEW fears emerged in the Limerick feud yesterday after reports of divisions within the McCarthy-Dundon gang over the decision by one of its leaders to order the murder of gang member James Cronin.

A TERRIFIED Limerick widow was still in hospital last night after her house came under fire in the city’s latest gun attack.

HEAVILY ARMED members of the Emergency Response Unit took up duty in Limerick’s feud hotspots yesterday.

A LEBANESE man questioned by gardaí investigating the brutal murder of Latvian woman Baiba Saulite last November was arrested in Limerick months earlier when gardaí foiled an elaborate murder plot by a Limerick feud gang.

LIMERICK’S notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang are suspected of carrying out the murder of Latvian Baiba Saulite as a favour for the leader of a non-national gang based in Dublin, the Irish Examiner has learned from well-informed sources.

THE mother of the five-year-old Limerick boy who was shot on Sunday night, yesterday gave a chilling account of the brutal attack.