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.

A TEENAGER was arrested by Askeaton gardaí yesterday who are investigating a series of road incidents which resulted in a crash involving a delivery lorry.

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.

Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on the bodies of two people who died in separate drownings.

WHILE back pain now costs the economy hundreds of millions of euro in disability payments each year, there is no plan to deal with it, a medical conference head said yesterday.

Communist rebels withdrew a blockade of Nepal’s highways today but gave the country’s political parties a two-day deadline to begin the process of rewriting the constitution, their leader said.

Jimmy Woulfe

A man has been seriously injured in a suspected gas explosion at a factory in Limerick city this morning.

THE number of non-nationals giving birth at the Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital has put “intolerable pressure” on facilities there in the past decade.