The house where a Limerick man was shot dead four years ago had been shot at twice shortly before the killing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

THE part-time security man murdered in Limerick early yesterday was the stepfather of the Murray children Millie and Gavin who were badly burned in a fire-bomb attack in Moyross last September.

A 'crack cocaine' addict who held a syringe to a six-year-old girl sitting in the back-seat of a car, has been jailed for seven years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.