Limerick State solicitor Michael Murray reflects on a job well done, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

A drugs haul, worth nearly €1million euro, which was discovered in a house in Tipperary, is linked to the Collopy criminal gang in Limerick city, garda sources said.

The head of the Limerick divisional drugs squad said yesterday that the jailing of the Collopy brothers, Kieran and Brian, resulted from a clinically organised strike against the gang’s leadership after a year-long multi-agency Garda operation.

A major figure connected with a feud of Limerick drugs gangs has survived a further attempt on his life, it emerged yesterday.

The Wild Atlantic Way is good for business along Ireland’s indented coastline, say the couple about to sell up a well-performing local shop and cafe/restaurant, which they’ve developed through the recession.

A major Limerick criminal who gardaí suspect was involved in the failed murder attempt of convicted crime boss Christy Keane, previously tried to burn to death members of Keane’s family in an arson attack, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Gardaí in Limerick remain on a heightened state of alert amid fears a gang feud in the city could reignite following the attempted murder of Christy Keane.

For decades Christy Keane’s family ran a sizeable coal delivery business from their base in St Mary’s Park, better known as the Island Field. He soon discovered his delivery business was an ideal cover to get into drugs.

Heavy weaponry and witness intimidation made Limerick’s gangs almost untouchable in the previous decade. Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the man who ended their reign of terror.

The teenage son of a Limerick crime boss used a powerful Glock semi-automatic handgun when he tried to kill the 17-year-old son of a rival crime gang member, it has emerged.

Contracts with a combined value of €4.3m have been signed in relation to two road construction projects in Co Limerick.

A son of slain Limerick gangland figure Eddie Ryan has brought a High Court challenge after he was refused extended remission on a six-year jail sentence.

A major split has emerged among Fianna Fáil members of the new 40-seat Limerick City and County Council.

Independent Councillor Brigid Teefy has become the first candidate elected to Limerick's new local authority.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

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.

Evidence entered at the John Dundon trial which has amazed many related to a meeting in Cruises St on Oct 29, 2008.

Two men linked to the notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang are to be charged with the murder of businessman Roy Collins tomorrow, it has emerged.

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

SENIOR gardaí will object to any compassionate release sought by members of the McCarthy Dundon gang for the funeral of their mother who died in a road collision in London, it has emerged.

Experts at two of leading tyre businesses - Fastfit and Advance Pitstop - have said the damage to a tyre from a Dana presidential campaign vehicle was consistent with the car having been driven on a flat tyre.

A MORNING school run turned to terror and gunfire when a drug-crazed man hijacked a car with three children.

A TEENAGE boy drowned in the River Suir yesterday, while the body of an unidentified man was recovered from the River Blackwater near Fermoy.

A MAN described as a “foot soldier” in Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang was jailed yesterday for six years for his role in a planned retaliation gun attack in the continuing city feud.

A MAN who had his home confiscated by the CAB and who was shot and wounded in a Limerick gang attack was jailed for eight years for intimidating a witness with the intention of perverting and interfering with the course of course of justice.

A FORMER associate of a well-known Limerick family, along with his wife and children, are living under 24/7 Garda protection, a Circuit Court heard yesterday.

Trying to live a normal life in the face of growing gangland threats, mid-west correspondent Jimmy Woulfe talks to families hit by Limerick’s bloody feud as it reaches its 10th anniversary.

TOMORROW marks the 10th anniversary of the murder which led to an all-out war between two Limerick feuding gangs.

TWO Limerick brothers who were the alleged victims of a kidnapping in 2003 shortly before the murder of a city gang leader were yesterday jailed for a total of 14 years after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition earlier this year.

A MAN jailed for his part in the first killing in the vicious Limerick feud, has narrowly escaped death.

FOUR people at a special needs residential facility have been infected with swine flu, days after two children in a similar centre on the border died of the virus.

WORSHIPPERS dived for cover in a Co Limerick church after a lit firework was flung through the gallery door and exploded.

LIMERICK gardaí believe a violent teenager, still at large, was involved in three murders in the city.

MORE than half a century ago, a team from Cashel RFC headed for Limerick to face the full might of Shannon in the pinnacle of the junior rugby season — the Munster Junior Cup final.

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.

THE Limerick crime boss who died late on Sunday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head, only last month told a Limerick court that people were “trying to shoot him every week”.

THE alliance between the McCarthy and Dundon families goes back to the early 1970s, when one of the McCarthy family from Ballincurra Weston married Kenneth Dundon whose family came from Ballynanty, across the city.

FOR some people, human life has value for the same reason that gold has value — its worth is determined by the price someone is willing to pay for it.

THE discovery yesterday of a body partly buried in open ground in Limerick is almost certainly the 10th tit-for-tat murder in the continuing feud between two rival drugs gangs.

THE widow of murdered Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane survived a gun attack late on Monday night, it emerged yesterday.

THE sprawling housing estates of Moyross and St Mary’s Park were under virtual garda lockdown last night following the murder earlier in the day of Noel Campion in Thomondgate.

A SHOTGUN attack on a house in the Garryowen area of Limerick may be feud-related.