The minister for justice has asked gardaí to send him an up-to-date report on the murder file of innocent teenager Jeffrey Hannan.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

The low-profile former Mr Big of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was responsible for one of its most notorious murders, now runs a drugs operation in Limerick and Cork with a well-known former businessman, it has emerged.

Almost three years after losing their son Roy Collins, his parents have left the country under a State witness relocation programme.

SENIOR gardaí will object to any compassionate release sought by members of the McCarthy Dundon gang for the funeral of their mother who died in a road collision in London, it has emerged.

A MAN arrested in Limerick yesterday with two women in connection with two recent gun attacks is believed to have links to members of the McCarthy Dundon gang who carried out a notorious feud murder in April 2007.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are closely monitoring a major regrouping of the leadership of the notorious McCarthy Dundon gang.

A MAN described as a “foot soldier” in Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang was jailed yesterday for six years for his role in a planned retaliation gun attack in the continuing city feud.

GARDAÍ believe two men who died and a third who was injured in a single car accident near Adare on Tuesday night may have been on a criminal mission at the time.

THE slump in the property market has hit new lows in one of the most policed neighbourhoods in the country.

Trying to live a normal life in the face of growing gangland threats, mid-west correspondent Jimmy Woulfe talks to families hit by Limerick’s bloody feud as it reaches its 10th anniversary.

TWO men and a woman with links to the notorious McCarthy Dundon gang were still being held by gardaí in Limerick last night in connection with a stabbing incident on Sunday.

THERE were unconfirmed reports in Limerick last night that crime figure, Wayne Dundon, who returned to the city last week for his uncle’s funeral, has again departed for Turkey where he has been living for some months.

FIVE men and three women were in custody last night after a major arrest operation in the ongoing investigation into the murder of Lee Slattery last May.

A PRIEST has appealed for an end to the violence in Limerick as its latest victim was laid to rest yesterday.

ONE of the most senior figures in the McCarthy Dundon gang, who Gardaí believe was involved in the murder of businessman, Roy Collins, was released from prison at the weekend after completing a sentence for drugs possession.

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

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.

A MAN jailed for his part in the first killing in the vicious Limerick feud, has narrowly escaped death.

DANIEL TREACY’S father, Phil, who owns the family bread business, is protected by armed gardaí when he goes on his bread rounds since the Kieran Keane trial in which another of his sons, Owen, was the key state witness.

A FEARED Limerick criminal who booked into a hotel carrying an Uzi submachine gun fitted with a silencer in his luggage was planning a feud gang killing, gardaí believe.

THE man shot and wounded near Thomond Park on Friday night as rugby fans left the Heineken Cup game between Munster and Northampton was allowed home from hospital yesterday.

A KNOWN associate of the McCarthy Dundon gang is recovering after receiving numerous slash wounds in a vicious attack near his home in Limerick.

WHEN the Garryowen thirds team took to the field at the weekend, there was no number 3 on the jersey of the tight head prop.

A CONVICTED murderer was found with 73 ready-for-sale bags of heroin when his cell was searched at Limerick prison.

GARDAÍ recovered a handgun and made five arrests during a series of early morning raids across Limerick city as part of a crackdown on criminal gangs.

SOLICITOR John Devane has insisted he would be “a dead man walking” if he made a statement to gardaí surrounding an alleged assault, last week, at Limerick Courthouse.

THE father of murdered Limerick businessman Roy Collins called on solicitor John Devane to stand up to the leading McCarthy Dundon gang member who assaulted him at Limerick Courthouse and file a formal complaint against the gang leader.

ARMED patrols have been stepped up in Limerick amid fears of an outbreak of violence between the feuding McCarthy Dundon and Keane Collopy factions following a gun attack on the home of one gang leader.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating two shooting incidents which happened early yesterday morning, including one targeting the home of a leading member of the McCarthy Dundon gang.

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.

LIMERICK gardaí believe a violent teenager, still at large, was involved in three murders in the city.

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.

WAYNE DUNDON, a leading figure in the McCarthy Dundon gang, was jailed for 10 years at Limerick Circuit Court in May 2005 for threatening to kill Ryan Lee, who is a first cousin of yesterday’s murder victim, Roy Collins.

FOLLOWING the accidental death in Limerick of crime boss Philip Collopy, another known and feared gunman from O’Malley Park has been found dead in London from a suspected heroin overdose.

THE Limerick crime boss who died late on Sunday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head, only last month told a Limerick court that people were “trying to shoot him every week”.

TWO teenagers were last night being questioned by Limerick gardaí in connection with the weekend death of a man following an assault in his home.

FOLLOWING a meeting with Limerick’s most senior garda officers, Mayor John Gilligan said he was very confident that those involved in the murder of rugby captain Shane Geoghegan will be brought to justice.

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.

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

LIMERICK’S security-conscious criminals have a chance to buy an armour-plated bullet-proof executive car fit for an ambassador.

A SPLIT has developed in one of Limerick’s feud gangs over moves to call a truce.

FEUD violence flared on a busy street yesterday in front of frightened passersby.

SIX people arrested in connection with a Limerick gangland murder have been released without charge.