HUNDREDS yesterday attended the funeral in Limerick of Ger South, who campaigned tirelessly over decades for better services for people with intellectual disabilities.

ARMED members of the Garda Regional Response Unit monitored the funeral of Limerick crime boss Philip Collopy yesterday, as a horse-drawn hearse bearing an aluminium casket made its way through the city centre.

MEMBERS of the army’s 12th battalion from Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick, yesterday provided a guard of honour at the funeral of retired corporal Stephen O’Grady who was stabbed to death at his home early on Thursday last.

GARDAÍ revealed yesterday they are satisfied as to the identity of the gunman that killed Gary Grant in Limerick last week.

Fr Donough O’Malley, a parish priest in Limerick, has called for an end to the spree of killings in the city.