Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the head of the Limerick gardaí.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD murder victim’s funeral Mass heard yesterday how his parents maintained a three-day vigil by his beside before a life support machine was turned off.

THE post-mortem results on Limerick teenager Darren Coughlan, who died after a vicious attack, were still being finalised by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis last night.

A MURDER investigation was underway in Limerick last night after 18-year-old Darren Coughlan was pronounced dead at the Mid-Western regional hospital.

A MURDER inquiry was launched last night after a man died 48 hours after a brutal assault in Dublin.

THE funeral Mass for Limerick man, David Nunan, who was brutally murdered last Friday was held yesterday in the same church where he served as an altar boy.

Gardaí have released the name of a man found shot dead in Co Clare yesterday morning.

MURDERED Limerick criminal David Nunan, whose body was found yesterday in the affluent village of Parteen, may have been lured into a death trap, believing he was going on a burglary mission with his killer.

A murder hunt began tonight for the killer of a small-time Limerick criminal in Parteen, Co Clare.