After having consensual intercourse, a man tried to force anal sex on a woman he had a child with, telling her she would like it and would ask for more, a court heard.

A mother who was pregnant and high on crystal meth when she beat and robbed a man, having lured him to an apartment, has been jailed for six months.

Members of two Limerick families embroiled in a three year long dispute buried the hatchet today when they shook hands outside Limerick Circuit Courthouse.

A man described as "one of most violent criminals in Limerick city" was jailed for 10 years today, for threatening to kill a 19-year-old barman who was was shot in a pub in Limerick city last year.