Armed gardaí took up positions outside the home of super-witness April Collins as her former partner Ger Dundon was expected back in Limerick last night after his release from Wheatfield Prison on Saturday.

One of the country’s most under-threat women sat in a Limerick court and heard that her partner, a notorious rapist, was now a changed man since meeting her and having a child with her.

The low-profile former Mr Big of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was responsible for one of its most notorious murders, now runs a drugs operation in Limerick and Cork with a well-known former businessman, it has emerged.

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

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.

It was a case where we saw a 24-year-old pregnant woman, acting as a key prosecution witness, take on the notorious Limerick criminal family, the Dundons.

A woman has admitted being in a “loving embrace” with a violent sex offender just one day after complaining to gardaí that she was in fear for her life following threats made by two of her ex-partner’s brothers.

A garda witness in the trial of two Limerick man accused of threatening to kill a mother and three of her children has denied that one of the complainants received any “special status” after making the allegations.

A MAN who took part in a brutal gang rape of a woman at Cratloe in Co Clare in 2004, when he was aged 16, has been jailed for failing to notify gardaí of where he was living, which was compulsory after he been placed on the Sex Offenders Register as part of his sentence for the horrific attack.

THE Russian government honoured an Irish World War II hero yesterday for saving thousands of lives through his brave service on the treacherous wartime Arctic convoys.

A leading consulting engineering company and senior project engineer have been awarded their legal costs after being acquitted of breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising out of a fatal accident at a construction site.

A leading consulting engineering company and senior project engineer have been acquitted of breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising out of a fatal accident at a construction site seven years ago.

An engineering company has been fined €15,000 arising out of a fatal accident five years ago at a south Dublin site in which a construction worker was crushed to death after three flights of stairs collapsed.

Walker Cup hopefuls Simon Ward and Jonathan Caldwell will lead the chase for the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Co Louth on Saturday.

A leading construction company has been fined €50,000 for negligence which led to a father of two being killed when a concrete staircase collapsed on him at a building site.

Sixteen-year old Rory McIlroy, who successfully defended the West of Ireland Championship last weekend, heads the entries for the AIB Irish Amateur Open Championship.

TIPPER ROAD, fresh from a career-best performance at the Curragh on Sunday, can do the business again in the Adare Handicap at Limerick this evening.

CompiledJanuary 2005: Paul Buckley, aged 32, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher, was given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler for the rape and assault causing harm of a 25-year-old woman in the garden of a house in April 2002.

GRANTS totalling €65,000 were awarded by the Irish Sports Council to leading Irish golfers.

A Limerick man who participated in a savage gang-rape of a woman in a wood last year has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

Irish Amateur Close Championship at Westport Golf Club

CHILDREN are carrying out more crimes involving extreme violence and the system for dealing with them is a “farce”, probation officers warned yesterday.