A LIMERICK drugs dealer suspected of murdering a heroin addict in Southill is believed to have fled the country.

GARDAÍ recovered heroin with a street value of over €200,000 when they carried out searches in Southill yesterday as part of their investigation into the murder of Limerick man Thomas Moran.

A WELL-KNOWN Limerick drug dealer is suspected of murdering Thomas Moran moments after he attacked the criminal’s home in Southill after being refused a ‘fix’.

THE Limerick drug addict who was murdered on Sunday night was shot as punishment for breaking into the home of a drugs dealer in a desperate attempt to get his hands on heroin.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a man in his 30s in connection with the murder of Thomas Moran in Limerick.

Gardaí today named the murder victim found on waste ground in Limerick in the early hours of this morning

Experts are investigating today why a bus chartered for a Canadian hockey team swerved and rammed a parked tractor-trailer so hard that the bus split in half lengthwise, killing four people and injuring 19.

THE carnage on Irish roads claimed four more lives in the past 24 hours — two in Co Limerick and two in Co Donegal.

LIMERICK’S Andy Lee is on course to become the star of this season’s national senior boxing championships with just Eamonn O’Kane blocking his route to the 75kg (middleweight) title at the National Stadium tomorrow night.