A LIMERICK criminal concealed a mobile phone up his back passage when serving a jail sentence, a court heard yesterday.

A GANG of roaming criminals are using the election to carry out daytime raids pretending to be canvassers.

THREE women and a man were being held by Limerick gardaí last night in connection with the abduction of a girl which sparked a gang murder on December 18 last.

A Limerick man who threatened to kill a woman, just hours after his brother was murdered in the city's notorious feud, has been jailed for eight months.

A Limerick man charged with threatening to kill a woman just hours after his brother was murdered has been remanded in custody for a further two weeks.

LIMERICK gardaí were yesterday continuing their investigation into the shooting in which city gang figure Brian Collopy was shot and wounded.

THE part-time security man murdered in Limerick early yesterday was the stepfather of the Murray children Millie and Gavin who were badly burned in a fire-bomb attack in Moyross last September.

THE brother of the man murdered in Limerick early yesterday was remanded in custody at a special sitting of Limerick District Court yesterday afternoon on a charge alleging that he threatened to kill a woman.

THE mother of five-year-old shooting victim Jordan Crawford brought him to a secret address in Limerick last night after he was allowed home from the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

THE mother of the five-year-old Limerick boy who was shot on Sunday night, yesterday gave a chilling account of the brutal attack.

Disruption caused by the foot-and-mouth outbreak will cost the UK economy an estimated £9bn this year, it was been claimed.