John Gilligan was stopped at Belfast International Airport in Co. Antrim last year with €22,280 cash as he was about to board a flight to Alicante in Spain.

Extra armed garda resources are to be deployed to Limerick to add to its already enhanced armed personnel focused on fighting organised criminal gangs, senior gardaí have confirmed.

An Anglo-Irish peer has emerged victorious in a planning row with his local council over plans for a memorial to honour Limerick people killed during the First World War.

When questioned last Monday by RTÉ over her startling claim about Ms Guerin, Gemma refused to elaborate, writes Michael Clifford

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A record number of new proceedings targeting the assets of suspected crime bosses were brought before the courts last year.

An outspoken former Limerick mayor claims the people of St Mary’s Park — named in a Pobal deprivation index as the most disadvantaged area of the country — were “abandoned” by state development agencies over decades.

The last remnant of the John Gilligan property empire in Ireland has gone on sale with the disposal of the former crime boss’s sprawling bungalow in Co Meath.

Waiting times for cases to be heard before the anti-terror courts almost halved last year, a report revealed.

The son of a man shot dead in his garden saw the gunman shooting on CCTV an inquest has heard.

Up to 14 families are facing eviction after their debt-ridden block of flats was sold to a pension fund.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sent a file to the DPP in relation to six senior associates of the Kinahan crime cartel for suspected money-laundering offences.

Convicted drug dealer John Gilligan and members of his family have been given three months by the Supreme Court to leave their homes, one in Co Meath and one in Blanchardstown, before the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) moves to sell or lease them.

Detectives investigating the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly have denied that offers to drop a murder charge were made to an accused man who turned prosecution witness before he gave a statement about the case.

Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

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Exclusive footage of former drug lord John Gilligan making the most of his time spent in Portlaoise prison has been uncovered by TV3 documentary ‘Paul Williams: State of Fear’.

A new two-part documentary with journalist Paul Williams is to assess the war on crime that has been ongoing since the death of Veronica Guerin 20 years ago.

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A plot to murder an outspoken former mayor of Limerick by a city drugs gang was revealed last night.

The Garda crackdown that followed the death of crusading journalist Veronica Guerin showed gangsters that they were not untouchable. Numerous arrests and the seizure of €50m of assets and €150m in taxes followed that brutal killing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in a case brought by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan and his family challenging proceeds of crime orders in relation to some of their assets.

The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement in John Gilligan’s attempt to stop the Criminal Assets Bureau from selling a number of properties.

John Gilligan is back in the Supreme Court this morning.

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Convicted drug dealer John Gilligan has claimed before the Supreme Court that he did not receive a proper trial when his assets were frozen by the State in 1996.

Gardaí have warned the bosses of the Kinahan crime cartel that they are intent on arresting them abroad and bringing them back home to face justice.

The justice minister is reviewing a system that costs €50m a year and that unquestioningly finances repeat offenders, but public defenders would not be cheaper and may involve a conflict of interest, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The rows of concrete wreckage which form streets through St Mary’s Park are a stark definition of how the much-vaunted Limerick Regeneration Plan has failed this community, writes Jimmy Woulfe

A new pedestrian amenity across the Shannon River in Limerick is a “bridge too far” in a city where suicide is at an alarming level.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed as an “abuse of process” Brian Meehan’s bid to have his conviction for murdering journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

Brian Meehan has failed in his attempt to have his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

Brian Meehan will find out this morning if his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin is to be declared a miscarriage of justice.

Limerick City and County Council has been accused of trampling on public opinion with a plan to erect a €15m footbridge along the Shannon near the city centre.

While bridges have featured in famous war films The Bridge over the River Kwai and a Bridge Too Far, a former mayor of Limerick yesterday warned battle lines are being drawn up over a planned €15m “bridge to nowhere” on the Shannon.

Three Limerick teenagers — two girls and a boy — were attacked when taking a shortcut to school yesterday morning.

Limerick politicians united to block a move by Irish Water to draw huge amounts of water from the Parteen Basin to augment supplies to the greater Dublin area.

A former mayor of Limerick has warned the city could be on the “slippery slope” back into feud gang violence following an attack on Limerick firefighters called to an arson attack on street security CCTV cameras.

Madeline Whelan was removing presents from under the Christmas tree in the front room of the family home in St Mary’s Park yesterday.

A man jailed for life for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin has moved to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

Fianna Fáil’s criticism of the Government over the lack of social housing was last night condemned as “total hypocrisy” by a former mayor of Limerick who accused the party of adopting one stance at national level and a “not-in-my-backyard” attitude in Limerick.

From defending crime bosses in the real world to writing about them in a fictional one, Michael O’Higgins gives us an authentic take on policing and the law, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Newspapers report that John Gilligan, in his current challenge to the sale of property in Ireland, has access to three barristers and three junior barristers, all on legal aid, paid for by the Irish taxpayer.