A woman in Boston triggered a missing person alert here — and a Limerick pensioner, her father, was found in a car near Portlaoise, claiming he had been held captive for days by his son, a court has heard.

A man charged in connection with the abduction of his 80-year old father, and stealing his savings, was granted bail Tuesday, despite strenuous objections from gardaí.

A 59-year-old man has appeared at Limerick District Court charged with the murder of a Romanian national in the city last Wednesday.

A man has escaped from garda custody after been refused bail on a charge of escaping garda custody.

Five males, including three teenagers, yesterday appeared in court on multiple charges relating to a crime rampage during which, it was alleged, several high-powered cars had been stolen.

A man charged in connection with a violent carjacking, in which he allegedly struck a woman across the head with a crutch, lashed out in court yesterday and told gardaí and prison officers, “I’ll kill the whole lot of ye bastards.”

A man who continually cried during a bail application was told by a judge to pull himself together and not act like a 16 year old caught with his hand in a cookie jar.

A man who has been charged in connection with a violent carjacking last Sunday, in which a woman was struck on the head before she was driven away by her attacker, told gardaí after his arrest: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it", a court has heard.

A woman has appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court charged with murdering one of her housemates.

A father of two, charged with a shooting at the home of a rival biker gang member as retaliation for the murder of his “best friend”, has been granted bail.

Two men appeared in court in Limerick charged in connection with the death of a 31-year-old man on Thursday night.

Gardaí have brought two men before a special court sitting in Limerick charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man.

A rider on a stolen scooter tried to ram one of two Garda cars giving chase in what is believed to be the first joyriding incident of its kind in this country.

One of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has been attacked at his home in Clare by two men, with one wielding a machete.

One of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has been cleared of a weapons offence after a judge ruled the alleged offence did not take place in a public place.

Gardaí found more than 13,000 rounds of ammunition and a rifle that had been modified to fire like a machine gun, when they searched a man’s home in Co Limerick, a court heard yesterday.

TWO weeks ago, I found my soulmate, my companion of 30-plus years, Judy, slumped in a corner of a bedroom.

A woman has been returned for trial in connection with the alleged multiple stabbing of another female.

A judge has ordered gardaí to arrest the parents of a 12-year-old girl after hearing she has missed more than 80% of the school year.

Two men accused of illegally cutting turf in an EU-protected bog face trial in the circuit court after a district judge declined jurisdiction.

A man handed over two greyhounds to a third party who shot them in the head, after they showed no promise of chasing hares, a court heard yesterday.

A wheelchair user who was sentenced to four years in January for distributing cannabis across Limerick and Kerry has been jailed again for dealing cannabis.

The parents of a 15-year-old boy have been fined €1,200 after their son failed to attend school in what was described as a “chronic level of absenteeism”.

A 91-year-old man appeared in court yesterday, on charges of assault, obstruction of a garda in his duty, and being abusive and insulting to staff at a nursing home.

A judge has threatened to jail the parents of a 12-year- old girl who has only attended 11 days of the current school year.

A child sex offender ordered by an English judge not to leave Britain was found staggering in a drunken state on a Co Limerick road, a court heard yesterday.

A mother charged with the murder of her son in Co Cork could not be brought to court as she was medically unfit.