EDUCATED and softly spoken, ruthless Eamon Dunne was the country’s most violent and feared gangland figure, personally responsible for ordering at least 17 gangland hits.

STEVE COLLINS yesterday spoke of the ongoing campaign of intimidation being waged against him and his family by the gang who were behind the murder of his son Roy.

FURTHER intimidation of the family of murdered Limerick businessman Roy Collins has led his father to call for the internment of the McCarthy-Dundon gang.

A CAR which was stolen near Mitchelstown last Monday when a bogus, would-be buyer asked to test drive it, has been found abandoned and burned out after being used by a Limerick gang to carry out a major robbery in Co Clare.

GARDAÍ in Limerick have foiled a contract killing in which a member of the McCarthy-Dundon gang was to be shot dead.

A SALES war among a proliferation of rifle ranges in Bulgaria is attracting increasing numbers of Irish criminal gangs for target practice, as reported in yesterday’s Irish Examiner.

DURING a high-speed incident involving feud gangs, a gunman opened fire while hanging out a car window weaving in and out of traffic, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

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.

A LIMERICK gang has brought in reinforcements from England while shootings continued yesterday in the latest flare-up in the city feud.

A notorious Limerick drugs gang has been dealt a major blow after gardaí seized €1.4m worth of cannabis on the outskirts of the city.