Limerick man Damien Collopy will be released next week after the Court of Criminal Appeal suspended the remaining three months of his five-year jail term for making threats to kill.

It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.

Many leaders of a prolific crime scene have been jailed, writes Jimmy Woulfe

Two Limerick brothers were remanded in custody today after being charged with threatening to kill another man.