Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

A BOY stole 25 cars in six months, a court heard.

A 17-year-old boy has been further remanded in continuing custody charged with the attempted murder of a 16-year-old boy in Co Clare.

GARDAÍ confiscated an armour-plated, bullet-proof BMW 4x4 from Limerick’s McCarthy Dundon gang at the weekend.