Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A man jailed for 14 years for the attempted aggravated burglary of a Cork businessman’s home has moved to appeal his conviction.

The final sad chapter in the double suicide of a couple in Co Limerick was concluded yesterday when the body of international fraudster Julia Holmes was cremated at Little Island Crematorium in Cork.

A young woman was shot and wounded along with her brother as they held a family gathering, and she only discovered she was pregnant when in hospital.

There was an angry outburst from the murderer of a 59-year-old homeless man as he was being sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday at the end of a three-week trial.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless person deliberated throughout yesterday without reaching a verdict. They will resume their deliberations on Tuesday.

The man who denies murder in the case where the body was found in a rubbish chute replied under cross-examination yesterday, “You are trying to make me out to be a fucking horrible bastard that I went out to kill this man”.

The homeless man whose body was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment block suffered no fatal injuries beforehand and died as a result of asphyxia and lack of oxygen, a pathologist has said.

The senior judge of the Central Criminal Court was praised in tributes from lawyers in Cork on the occasion of his last visit as a judge – and his own seven-word reply made his feelings clear about his forthcoming retirement from the bench: “There is nothing voluntary about my going.”

Laois footballer and Austin Stacks member Billy Sheehan will be among the leaders of the club’s now traditional parade to O’Moore Park on Sunday.

A armed robber who was caught with a loaded shotgun outside a family home in Cork last year has been jailed for 14 years.

A Garda Regional Support Unit member testified in a trial yesterday he was briefed in advance that an accused man was expected to be at the scene of an attempted aggravated burglary.

Almost 20 years after her body was found in an apartment in Dublin, a cold case investigation autopsy has been carried out on the remains of a Co Limerick woman.

The lawyer for a man charged with carrying a pump-action shotgun during an attempted aggravated burglary accused a garda of telling great lies in the witness box as the officer said he clearly saw the defendant at the crime scene.

A Garda helicopter flew to the scene of an attempted house raid in Cork that was intercepted by armed officers, while a heat-seeking device in the helicopter picked up a man trying to conceal himself in undergrowth.

After being told by a defence lawyer that the State had failed in coming up with alternatives to jail when dealing with young offenders, a judge yesterday ordered a year-long night curfew at home for a troubled Limerick teenager rather than locking him up.

Consumers should know if the food they are buying is being sold below the production cost, according to environmental body An Taisce.

A €220m development for the former Dell site in Limerick can proceed following a decision by An Taisce to withdraw its appeal with An Bord Pleanála.

The murders of a mother, her two young children and a family friend, in a house in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, on Nov 15, 2010, was described by a coroner as “mindless, mind-numbing, inexplicable, vicious” crime which shocked the nation.

A man yesterday told how, after he and a friend were abducted, he was freed and told his friend would be killed if his friend’s mother did not pay €500,000.

Limerick gangland figure Ger Dundon has failed in appeal against his five-year sentence for violent disorder.

The judgment in the John Dundon case ran to 84 pages and reveals the difficulties the court faced in evaluating the evidence of key witnesses, all of whom had close ties to Dundon and his associates and helped cover up Shane Geoghegan’s murder.

Limerick crime boss John Dundon has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

No matter how loud he turned the music up on his walkman, no matter no hard he pressed the headphones against his ears, John Dundon could not drown out the reality facing him in Court 11.

John Dundon has been found guilty of the murder of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan in a case of mistaken identity.

A court has been told that John Dundon’s carelessness in describing a man he wanted killed caused the death of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

A court has been told that John Dundon’s carelessness in describing a man he wanted killed caused the death of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of Limerick man John Dundon, who is accused of murdering rugby player Shane Geoghegan almost five years ago.

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A person seen on CCTV footage with a man accused of murder, handed over his phone to gardaí on the day of the shooting, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A 29-year-old Limerick woman has said that she heard John Dundon plan a killing a couple of weeks before rugby player Shane Geoghegan was murdered in a case of mistaken identity.

The chief prosecution witness in a Limerick murder trial has said she should not feel guilty about Shane Geoghegan’s murder, despite knowing about the killing and doing nothing to prevent it.

A Limerick woman has agreed that she could have saved Shane Geoghegan’s life if she had taken two opportunities to report a planned murder in the hours before the shooting.

A Limerick woman has agreed that she could have saved Shane Geoghegan’s life if she had taken two opportunities to report a planned murder in the hours before he died.

A coroner said he has never officially recorded a “suicide” verdict because of the outdated law coroners work under despite the fact that suicide in his West Limerick area is now at “contagion levels”.

Brendan Nix told the court that a member of the Dundon family contacted John Devane solicitors on Tuesday and asked the Limerick firm to come on record for the accused man.

A hospital consultant could find no reason why an illiterate prisoner due to defend himself at a murder trial fainted and cut his head in a cell, a court has heard.

Car manufacturers have been accused by An Taisce of deliberately misleading the public on fuel consumption and carbon emission efficiency levels.

Peace broke out under the battlements of Limerick’s King John’s Castle yesterday between a leading barrister and a top publisher who had been locked in a war of words over tomato ketchup.

A senior barrister in Limerick has called on people to boycott products advertised on TV3 following derogatory remarks made about his native city on Come Dine With Me by one of its celebrity guests.

A LIMERICK man was cleared yesterday by a jury of possessing a Glock semi automatic handgun with intent to endanger life.

IMPORTANT forensic and circumstantial evidence pointed to the guilt of a man charged in connection with the shooting of his daughter’s then-boyfriend, it was claimed at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday.

A LIMERICK trial moved into Southill yesterday when barristers climbed onto the roof of a building to see why a CCTV camera failed to record the shooting.

A WOMAN who claims one of her sons was shot by his girlfriend’s father, agreed in court that her three sons had a history of criminal violence.