It was 6.55am, June 7, 1996, when Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Detective Garda Ben O’Sullivan were targeted by an IRA gang as both officers provided an armed escort for a mail delivery van.

A man found digging up a huge stash of drugs money in a field in Co Limerick was released without charge yesterday. A file is being prepared for the DPP.

The head of the Limerick Garda Division yesterday challenged a claim that greater leadership is needed from the force’s management on issues relating to the gay community.

Limerick’s gangland problem is in danger of re-igniting, Fianna Fáil justice spokesman Niall Collins warned yesterday.

Nine suspected members of the Real IRA were being held by gardaí in Limerick last night following early morning raids in the city and county that involved more than 50 gardaí.

PEOPLE found drinking in public places in Limerick now face a €75 on-the-spot fine, as a result of a bylaw introduced by city council.

A MAJOR Garda transfer commenced in Limerick yesterday as up to seven units, including the immigration service, began to move out of the cramped Henry Street divisional headquarters to the adjoining Estuary House.

THE head of the Limerick Garda Division yesterday pledged to continue using the new anti-gang legislation to tackle serious criminality in the city.

A NIGHTCLUB which indicated its intention to seek an exemption from Limerick District Court to open from 12.01am on Saturday after the Good Friday pub exemption finished in the city for a big rugby game, did not proceed with its application.

THE head of the Limerick Garda division said yesterday a huge drop in crime, particularly burglaries, during the month of January in Limerick city and county, was possibly due to the icy weather preventing criminals travelling on the treacherous road conditions.

LIMERICK’s most senior garda detective, who spearheaded the fight against the city’s notorious gangs, is to retire next month.

A MAN described as one of Limerick’s most vicious criminals has died suddenly in jail while serving life for the brutal murder of a barman in the city.

SENIOR gardaí will meet today with the local joint policing authority in Limerick as a top garda takes charge of the Shane Geoghegan murder investigation.

CHANGES in the Garda management of outlying areas of Limerick city will pose a threat to a number of neighbourhoods located across the Clare boundary, it was claimed yesterday.

TWO detectives narrowly escaped death when a sniper hit their unmarked car with a burst of automatic gunfire as they drove through O’Malley Park, Southill.

AS GARDAÍ in Limerick yesterday tried to track down a sniper who opened fire on two detectives, the city’s Garda chief revealed that up to 25% of all incidents involving the illegal discharge of firearms in the State occur in the Limerick Garda division.

GARDA Brian Kelleher was proud of two things: his family and his uniform, colleagues said yesterday.

THE deployment to Limerick of just five of the 254 new gardaí who graduated from Templemore last Friday was yesterday condemned as an outrage.

A 49 year-old Clare businessman has been charged with the murder of nightclub security man, Brian Fitzgerald, in Limerick nearly four years ago.

LIMERICK gardaí have intensified their crackdown on firearms as it emerged yesterday that nearly one-third of all shootings in the country this year happened in the city.

MURDERED Limerick criminal David Nunan, whose body was found yesterday in the affluent village of Parteen, may have been lured into a death trap, believing he was going on a burglary mission with his killer.

A former recipient of a Scott Medal for bravery has been appointed to the most senior Garda position in Limerick.

TWO garda chiefs in Munster have been promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner by the government.

AS armed patrols keep the lid on the Limerick feud, the tried and trusted tactic of gardaí pounding the beat is turning the tables on the city’s more traditional trouble maker.

LIMERICK gardaí yesterday made a renewed appeal for help with an unsolved murder as it was revealed the murder detection rate in Limerick is above 90%.

DOGS and horses went on the beat in Limerick yesterday.

A NEW dog unit is being recruited by Limerick gardaí to help patrol the streets and fight crime, it was revealed yesterday.

A THIRD of all shootings in the country occur in Limerick city, a garda chief revealed yesterday.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are following a definite line of inquiry in the hunt for the killers of a 39-year-old Clareman on New Year’s Eve.