A Garda shot twice in an attempted murder in the US last year was one of 20 gardaí deployed to help break up a massive brawl involving up to 30 “feuding” members of the Travelling community on Thursday night.

There have been repeated calls for the closure of an asylum seekers’ hostel in Co Limerick where gardaí have been called on a number of occasions in the past week due to disturbances over conditions there.

A 33-year-old Afghan who fought the Taliban and is now on hunger strike yesterday appeared in court charged with causing criminal damage at a direct provision centre in Co Limerick.

A judge has ordered gardaí to arrest the parents of a 12-year-old girl after hearing she has missed more than 80% of the school year.

A man handed over two greyhounds to a third party who shot them in the head, after they showed no promise of chasing hares, a court heard yesterday.

A wheelchair user who was sentenced to four years in January for distributing cannabis across Limerick and Kerry has been jailed again for dealing cannabis.

The parents of a 15-year-old boy have been fined €1,200 after their son failed to attend school in what was described as a “chronic level of absenteeism”.

A judge has threatened to jail the parents of a 12-year- old girl who has only attended 11 days of the current school year.

Controversial Olympic swimmer Michelle de Bruin enjoyed success again yesterday.

Gardaí will today resume questioning a 43-year-old mother in connection with the death of her only child at a house in North Cork.

Two men were charged at Newcastle West District Court in Co Limerick yesterday with the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a bog in North Kerry on Sunday.

An undertaker escaped a criminal conviction yesterday after pleading guilty to illegally exhuming the body of a 95-year-old man from a cemetery.

Two men have today been charged with the murder of Brazilian man in Co Kerry.

Two men will appear in court this morning in relation to the murder of a man whose body was found in a bog in north Kerry during a planned Garda search on Sunday.

Gardaí have formally upgraded their inquiry into the death of a Brazilian man in Kerry to murder.

A FORMER two-time All Star Limerick hurler appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with a hit and run last year.

AN undertaker and car salesman appeared in court on a summons alleging he exhumed the body of an elderly man from a graveyard near Patrickswell without the necessary licence from Limerick County Council.

A METAL worker appeared in court charged with the sexual assault of a woman in her 60s in Charleville, Co Cork.

A MAN charged with the murders of two women and two young children in Co Limerick last year has been sent forward for trial.

THE state has strongly indicated that a book of evidence is ready to be served on a man accused of four murders in Co Limerick last November.

THE garda investigation into the deaths of a woman, her two children and a family friend in Newcastle West has been completed.

THE distraught mother of a young woman, who along with her two children and a friend were stabbed to death in a house in Newcastle West, yesterday confronted the man charged with their murder.

A MAN aged 31 was last night charged with the murders of two women and two children at Newcastle West, Co Limerick, last Monday.

TG4 bosses have been left red-faced after it emerged a farmer facing a cattle rustling charge has been chosen to vie for the title of Ireland’s top farmer in a new reality TV series aired for the first time last night.