A NORTH Corkman whose body was found in his former council flat in Limerick yesterday may have been dead for six months.

A GARDA had his ear almost completely bitten off and a colleague’s face was smashed by a head butt when they went to assist a distressed young child in a Limerick fast-food premises.

LIMERICK’S first citizen has played down an incident in which he was verbally abused over his strong criticism of feuding gangs.

GARDAÍ seized what they describe as a sizeable quantity of drink during the midweek raid of the Southill shebeen, but it was business as usual again last night.

A GARDA raid on the Southill shebeen sparked an incident that led to the man running the premises being summonsed yesterday at Limerick District Court.

A SHEBEEN operating in Southill has been closed down for the second time in less than a month.

THREE firearms have been discovered during Garda raids on a halting site and houses in the Kilmallock area of Limerick.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are planning to search an area where, a psychic believes, the body of a murdered teenager may be.

SHORTLY after being shot in the head, Limerick crime figure Mikey Kelly, 48, told ambulance technicians that a gunman had come into his bedroom and fired at him, an inquest heard yesterday.

THE inquest of former Limerick criminal turned politician Mikey Kelly has been set for next Wednesday.

EVEN when driving in fields, people on motorbikes should ensure they always wear helmets, a coroner said yesterday.

UP to eight shots were fired at houses during a spate of gun attacks in Limerick early yesterday.

THE garda killed in Sunday’s double road tragedy in Limerick risked his life in a high-speed chase during which a rock was smashed through his patrol car windscreen, it emerged yesterday.

JAIL sentences of 10 months were imposed yesterday on a Limerick couple who pleaded guilty to operating an illegal money-lending scam involving child-benefit books.

TWO ambulance crew attacked by an angry mob, during an emergency call to Southhill on Thursday night, were back on duty in Limerick yesterday.

One of two Limerick teenagers charged with an arson attack in which a young brother and sister suffered serious burns has appeared in court.

GARDAÍ fear a missing Limerick teenager may have met a violent death.

ONE of Waterford city’s proudest parishes is being forced to ask its mainly elderly congregation to dig even deeper and help save their Church’s magnificent stained glass windows.

THE funeral of a young mother which divided two families who brought their dispute to a High Court judge has been recalled at an inquest in Limerick.

A GARDA manhunt was under way last night for a dangerous prisoner who stole two cars and tried to hijack another in his escape from a Co Limerick courthouse yesterday.

Neans McSweeney

STILL only the first week of January, and hurling clubs and counties the length and breadth of Ireland are girding themselves for another tilt at their own particular Holy Grail.

AS armed patrols keep the lid on the Limerick feud, the tried and trusted tactic of gardaí pounding the beat is turning the tables on the city’s more traditional trouble maker.

The exhumation of the body of former Councillor Michael Kelly was completed in Limerick city tonight.

Former Limerick city councillor Michael Kelly is fighting for his life in hospital tonight after a shooting left a bullet lodged in his brain.

A team of Garda detectives was drafted to Limerick today to investigate the shooting of a former city councillor.

Gardaí investigating a brutal gangland killing in Limerick have examined the remains of a burned-out car which may have belonged to the murder victim.

GARDAÍ are to patrol the corridors of Limerick Hospital following an increase in violent attacks on staff.

THE heartbroken mother of brutally-slain 22-year-old Séamus O’Toole said yesterday the family was devastated on hearing of their “lovely” son’s tragic death.

A NUN who was killed after her car collided with a train died of shock and massive chest and abdominal injuries, an inquest heard yesterday.