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

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 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.

A 49-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday charged with the murder of a nightclub security man.

A 49 year-old Clare businessman has been charged with the murder of nightclub security man, Brian Fitzgerald, in Limerick nearly four years ago.

GARDAÍ in Limerick said they are confident of another breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of night club bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

Gardaí have arrested a 48-year-old businessman in connection with the murder of a nightclub bouncer in Limerick three and a half years ago.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the head of the Limerick gardaí.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the head of the Limerick gardaí.

HE’S 27 and controls one of the biggest drugs networks in the country.

JAMES MARTIN CAHILL spent his 28th birthday carrying out the murder of Limerick bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are finalising a legal action to confiscate €60,000 in cash they discovered during a raid on the apartment of former publican Jim ‘Chaser’ O’Brien.

THE arrests of a top Limerick crime boss in London and publican Jim O’Brien in Brussels have turned up the heat on the city’s criminal underworld; and the screw tightened further when hired killer James Cahill offered to grass on several top criminals in return for protection for him and his family.

A hired hit man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to the murder of a night club bouncer, who was shot in the head in front of his wife outside their Limerick home.

A British national charged with the murder of Limerick bouncer Brian Fitzgerald nearly three years ago has been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

The wife of a murdered Limerick bouncer came face to face with a man charged with her husband's killing today, almost three years after his death.

A 29 year-old man who was caught with an Uzi submachine gun during a garda chase was today found guilty of firearms and ammunition offences by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A man allegedly armed with an Uzi submachine gun attempted to escape arrest by ramming a Garda car before his car was brought forecibly to a halt, a detective sergeant claimed today.