The mother of a man who died in a notorious gang murder four years ago was found dead in tragic circumstances, an inquest has heard.

A sister of feared Limerick criminal Gary Campion, who is serving life sentences for two murders in the city, said she believes “the violence in Limerick will continue” due to future generations of criminal families seeking to defend their “family’s honour”.

A MAN arrested in Limerick yesterday with two women in connection with two recent gun attacks is believed to have links to members of the McCarthy Dundon gang who carried out a notorious feud murder in April 2007.

A CONVICTED murderer was found with 73 ready-for-sale bags of heroin when his cell was searched at Limerick prison.

JUST last month the secretary general of the Department of Justice, Seán Aylward, a former director of the Irish Prison Service, told the Dáil Committee on Public Accounts that drug-free prisons would be impossible in a humane system.

A CRIMINAL regarded as one of the most dangerous men ever to walk the streets of Limerick was last night starting a second life sentence for murder.

The trial of a Limerick man accused of murder will begin in Cloverhill on Wednesday morning.

Clare businessman Anthony Kelly, one of the three men cleared of the murder of a Limerick bouncer in November, has been denied his application for the cost of his defence at the Central Criminal Court.

One of the three men cleared of the murder of a Limerick bouncer last month has appeared in the Central Criminal Court to apply for the cost of his defence to be quashed.

THE driver of the getaway vehicle used in the killing of Limerick bouncer Brian Fitzgerald outside his family home five years ago was yesterday given a life sentence for his role in the crime.

A 24-year-old man has been given a life sentence for the murder of a Limerick bouncer by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of three men charged with the murder of a Limerick bouncer have been sent to a hotel for the night at Central Criminal Court sitting at Cloverhill.

The judge in the trial of three men accused of the murder of a Limerick bouncer has begun charging the jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting at Clover Hill.

One of the four men accused of the murder of a Limerick bouncer has been found not guilty.

The prosecution case against four men accused of the murder of a Limerick bouncer has concluded at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of the four men on trial for their part in the fatal shooting of a Limerick bouncer told gardaí that he had never seen a gun in his life.

Gardaí investigating four men accused of murdering a Limerick bouncer have told the Central Criminal Court jury at their trial that the chief prosecution witness had not complained about screaming in his head when he came forward to admit to the murder.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer standing trial at the Central Criminal Court has told the jury that he was involved in six murder plots both before and after the shooting.

The defence counsel for one of the four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer standing trial at the Central Criminal Court has told the chief prosecution witness that he could not have gone to collect a gun from his client at any point on the day of the murder.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has denied that the man he had claimed asked him to shoot the bouncer approached him to commit the murder.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that there had been an earlier plan to kill the bouncer before he shot him in the chest and in the head.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that that he had flashbacks after the murder and could hear screaming in his head.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that that he had flashbacks after the murder and could hear screaming in his head.

A witness in the trial of four men accused of the fatal shooting of a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that one of the accused men got him a gun and showed him how to use it.

The Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of four men accused of the fatal shooting of a Limerick bouncer have been shown footage showing a man identified as one of the accused on the night of the shooting.

The Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of four men accused of the fatal shooting of a Limerick bouncer have been hearing from taxi drivers who were working in Limerick on the night of the shooting.

Neighbours of a Limerick bouncer have told the jury in the trial of four men accused of the killing at the Central Criminal Court how they woke up of the night of the shooting to hear gunshots.

Neighbours of a Limerick bouncer have told the jury in the trial of four men accused of the killing at the Central Criminal Court how they woke up on the night of the shooting to hear gunshots.

The widow of a Limerick bouncer shot dead in November 2002 has told the jury in the trial of four men accused of her husbands killing at the Central Criminal Court that she saw her husband struggling with a man wearing a motorcycle helmet.

The trial of four men accused of murdering a nightclub bouncer in Limerick City five years ago has been put off until next Monday.

Four men have pleaded not guilty to the murder of a nightclub bouncer in Limerick in November 2002.

SHOTS were fired outside the home of a recent murder victim in a Limerick feud on Monday afternoon.

THE brother of the latest victim of Limerick’s bloody feud yesterday paid a defiant farewell from inside the walls of Limerick prison.

THE many floral tributes sent to the removal last night of Limerick gang member Noel Campion included one from the Real IRA.

A violent criminal threatened a Limerick prison officer that he could spend up to €20,000 to have him killed, a court has heard.