Limerick State solicitor Michael Murray reflects on a job well done, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

A family has fled their home in Limerick “in fear” for their lives, after a man, armed with a butcher’s knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard.

A family has fled their home in Limerick "in fear" for their lives, after a man, armed with a butchers' knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard writes David Raleigh.

A Limerick man, who gardaí allege is a senior criminal figure, has appeared in court charged in connection with a high-speed chase over the weekend.

A man has appeared in court charged in connection with an alleged dangerous high-speed chase with Gardaí, at the weekend.

Melissa Butler shows us around her 1989 Toyota Soarer GZ20

Aidan O’Shea maintains he was head-butted by Philly McMahon in last month’s drawn All-Ireland semi-final.

Diarmuid Connolly benefited from an almost identical assessment in New England Patriots quarter-back’s Tom Brady’s suspension appeal case last week to successfully quash the ublin star’s one-match ban on Saturday.

“Lost my appeal to the red card I got in club game. Irony: any appeal I’ve won in the past I was as guilty as sin. The one time I’m innocent, I lose.” - Eamon McGee @EamonMcGee

September dawns and the GAA’s disciplinary system finds itself occupied in a month in which it is usually dormant.

Next year’s Congress is likely to vote on a motion upgrading a dive from a yellow card to a black or red card offence in the wake of the Tiernan McCann case.

For decades Christy Keane’s family ran a sizeable coal delivery business from their base in St Mary’s Park, better known as the Island Field. He soon discovered his delivery business was an ideal cover to get into drugs.

After leading the fight against serious crime in Limerick over the last 30 years, the detective who investigated 19 feud-related killings has declared "the city is like any normal city now".

LIAM KEANE’S two-fingered insult to the nation almost 10 years ago was one of those landmark moments in Irish crime.

It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.

It was a glitch Croke Park prayed wouldn’t come to light and now their fears have become so understandable.

Gardaí say a pothole crusader has no case to answer following a complaint from a local authority that said he may have endangered public safety.

It must rank as one of the most unusual festive swims.

Rockchapel 1-8 Mitchelstown 0-6

Newcastle West finally reached their destination after 74 years of trying yesterday when they lifted the Pierce Purcell Shield at Kinsale Golf Club.

Many leaders of a prolific crime scene have been jailed, writes Jimmy Woulfe

GAA president Liam O’Neill has strongly defended his commitment to Gaelic football and admitted his shock at the reaction to his misinterpreted Congress comments.

GAA President Liam O'Neill has announced his new committees to oversee areas such as games adminstration, discipline, hurling and football development, referees, finance, youth and playing rules.

As difficult as it is to believe for such an organisation integral to Irish society, the role of the GAA president remains undefined. Director general Páraic Duffy is widely regarded as the most powerful administrator in Irish sport yet the Uachtarán is viewed by GAA members as the embodiment of the association.

GAA president Christy Cooney revealed Croke Park bosses will meet with the Revenue Commissioners this week to resolve issues relating to referee expenses.

Cork footballers risk forfeiting home advantage in one of their remaining three Division 1 games if they contest their charge for contributing to a melee.

IT was steady as she goes for a consistent Mitchelstown side who were never seriously troubled by Urhan in this Cork JAFC quarter-final at Dunmanway.

REFEREE Pat McEnaney has voiced his opposition to the new refereeing rule which comes into force for this year’s All-Ireland championships.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has acknowledged John Bannon’s successful but amended motion to take referees out of the video disciplinary process could heap more pressure on match officials to make the correct decisions.

WATERFORD chairman Tom Cunningham has branded allegations made against hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald after the Allianz Hurling League clash with Tipperary as “shameful and disgraceful’’.

GAA President Christy Cooney has expressed his confidence the proposed five-year recognition protocol deal between the Association and the GPA will be given the green light by counties over the coming three weeks.

SEAMUS McENANEY was finally given the green light to become the fifth manager of the Meath senior football team in seven seasons at the county board meeting in Navan last night.

MEATH legend Liam Harnan has urged county officials to make history by appointing Seamus McEnaney as their first ever non native manager.

NEW Galway football manager Tomás O Flatharta hopes to have his backroom team in place in the coming weeks. The Kerryman, who has taken over from Joe Kernan for the next three years said he was really looking forward to the job and would have no problem combining it with his daytime profession as a business manager with AIB in Dublin.

BEFORE four-by-fours and fourballs formed the small talk at county board meetings, the GAA was run very differently.

CHRISTY COONEY has no doubt the GAA’s recognition of the Gaelic Players Association will ‘safeguard’ its future and ‘seal its cherished amateur and voluntary ethos’.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating two shooting incidents which happened early yesterday morning, including one targeting the home of a leading member of the McCarthy Dundon gang.

SOME media coverage on the impending jail release of a drugs dealer could lead to him being targeted by rivals, it was claimed yesterday.

A NOTORIOUS feud family member and a close associate have both been jailed for 10 years for having a powerful handgun that was loaded and primed for use.

RECESSIONARY pressures and the likelihood of a supporter backlash — which is evident in declining interest in early rounds of the qualifier series — mean that there will be no increase in admission prices to games in 2009.