A man has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to bribe a serving garda by offering him €7,000, after he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.

A teetotal elderly couple and their son were refused drink in a Co Limerick pub, when all they wanted was lemonade.

Three Limerick children were robbed by a man who threatened to shoot and stab them on their way to school.

The owner of a bridal shop has been sent for trial at the Limerick Circuit criminal court on charges alleging theft.

A 13-year-old boy has appeared in court in Limerick charged with allegedly engaging in a lewd act with a seven-year-old boy.

A Lithuanian man has appeared in court, charged in connection with an incident in which another man was shot by a garda, last week.

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

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 man was ‘crucified’ by having his feet nailed onto the kitchen floor of a house where he was held captive, it was alleged yesterday at Limerick District Court.

A 29-year-old man who was intercepted by gardaí while allegedly on his way to a hotel to have sex with a boy last Monday, has been remanded in continuing custody with consent to bail.

A 29-year old man was intercepted by gardaí on his way to a hotel to have sex with a boy last Monday, a court heard last night.

A Garda shot twice in an attempted murder in the US last year was one of 20 gardaí deployed to help break up a massive brawl involving up to 30 “feuding” members of the Travelling community on Thursday night.

Three men appeared yesterday at Kilmallock District Court charged in relation to armed raids and the false imprisonment of residents at three homes in Co Limerick almost four years ago.

A water charges protester was yesterday convicted of assaulting a detective garda while he was on duty, providing protection for the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.

A man who threw a bottle of Coke at a judge last week after she refused him bail yesterday apologised in court, telling the judge: “I lost the head”.

Two brothers charged in connection with the seizure of €50,000 worth of heroin in Limerick have been refused bail after a court was told of Garda fears they might leave the jurisdiction.

A man who dangled his three young children from the fifth floor of a city centre apartment block in Limerick as passers-by watched in horror, has been put on probation.

A man who is alleged to have received a death threat from a person described as “head” of Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang did not wish to proceed with a complaint he made to gardaí, a court has heard.

A man alleged by gardaí to be the head of a criminal gang has been been charged with threatening to kill his sister’s father-in-law, in Limerick, last Tuesday.

A man charged with murdering another man in a “frenzied” knife attempted to flee Limerick District court yesterday morning.

A Limerick man who spent six days on the run after escaping from custody has been jailed for four months after a suspended prison sentence imposed for throwing a wheelchair in a busy emergency department was activated.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show has been given a 12-month ‘rap on the knuckles’ by a judge.

Gardaí have said the murder of a Limerick biker was recorded on security cameras, and the killing is linked to a “bitter feud” between rival motorcycle gangs.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious harm to two pensioners, one of whom lost his leg, following a hit and run incident outside a pitch and putt course in Co Clare.

A jewellers’ store in Limerick discovered Shakespeare knew what he was talking about when he penned the words: “All that glisters is not gold.”

A woman was yesterday charged at Limerick District Court with the murder of a pensioner on November 10, 2013.

A garda who ended up on trial after he resolved a dispute between a taxi driver and a passenger over a €6.25 fare has been cleared of wrongdoing.

An immaculately restored 2,400 sq ft home, at peaceful Nadrid, Coachford, has up to six bedrooms and four bathrooms, says Tommy Barker and was found at the end of a six-month hunt by Andrew Ashford and Marian O’Leary, when they returned from Australia in 1999