Two people charged in connection with the collapse of a high-profile murder trial almost three years have escaped jail sentences.

LIMERICK City Council may have to spend three quarters of a million euro next year to buy houses in three trouble estates to prevent them falling into the hands of criminal gangs.

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.