The Special Criminal Court has heard that a Limerick man feared his life would become “hell” if he made a statement to gardaí alleging a threat made against the life of his father and sister.

GOOD quality pasture land, about 34 acres of it, comes with the lakeside period property Woodfield House, beside Doon Lake at Broadford, Co Clare.

BACK when they were dating, Susan Lynch and her husband Seamus used to take country drives, admiring houses, photographing ones they liked, planning their eventual dream home, and keeping a log of ideas to implement when the time came to buy or build.

A LIMERICK criminal with 84 previous convictions, who used to drive around the city in a powerful, bullet-proof BMW, was jailed yesterday after a woman who offered to pay bail for him was not accepted by Limerick District Court.

A LIMERICK man was yesterday charged at the city’s district court with the murder of a Southill neighbour on Saturday night.

A 38-year-old man accused of murdering his mother was found guilty but insane at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 38-year-old man on trial for murdering his mother was suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the killing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 38-year-old man on trial for murdering his mother told gardaí he battered her to death because she was domineering and "wrecking" his head, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A woman convicted of running a Dublin brothel was today given a six-month suspended sentence for failing to make tax returns on her income.