Children arriving for school saw two women rolling around the ground in a vicious brawl, where one woman had her clothes ripped off and a man who tried to break up the fight ended up with a fractured skull.

A young woman was shot and wounded along with her brother as they held a family gathering, and she only discovered she was pregnant when in hospital.

A man questioned by gardaí in West Limerick in connection with a shooting at a housing estate which left a brother and sister wounded, has been released without charge.

A brother and sister were shot and wounded yesterday afternoon when a masked gunman opened fire in a busy housing estate in Co Limerick as children played nearby.