ON LEAVING a Limerick pub after an argument, a drunken customer armed himself with a loaded sawn-off shot gun, put on a balaclava and returned to shoot the man he had rowed with.

Tourism chiefs and political leaders today rounded on pranksters behind a bogus advertisement ridiculing Limerick as a polluted, lawless and trigger-happy backwater.

FRIENDSHIPS forged on the road to Puck, marriages celebrated at Cahirmee and deals done at the Fair of Spancil Hill.