A loaded sawn off shot-gun was prodded into the stomach of a Co Clare mother and she was told she would have her head blown off.

The world’s top golfers will be able to sink pints as well as putts during the JP McManus Pro-Am in Adare Manor in 2020.

The world’s top golfers will be able to sink pints as well as putts during the JP McManus Pro-Am in Adare Manor in 2020.

Dark stories of young lives wrecked by a Christian Brother during the reign of sexual terror he waged on primary school boys unfolded at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday.

A man who allegedly drove the wrong way along the N18 while attempting to evade gardaí, has had his hopes of holidaying in the seaside town of Kilkee dashed after a judge refused to vary his bail terms today.

A judge today described the effects of depraved sexual attacks on fifth class boys by their teacher as a “nuclear fallout” for the victims and their families, writes David Raleigh.

A retired Irish army weapons instructor who pulled a revolver in a Limerick takeaway after “losing the rag” with two children was yesterday jailed at Limerick Circuit Court.

A woman recalled yesterday that when she was 13, she was left naked during a game of strip poker with a man married to her older sister.

A judge jailed a grandmother for brothel keeping and dismissed her story that she returned to the prostitution business to bankroll her husband’s credit card spending spree as being “in the realms of Walter Mitty”.

A member of an Eastern European gang that robbed high-end fashion wear and thousands of euro worth of expensive perfumes in night- time raids in Munster was yesterday jailed for five and a half years.

Despite threats to his personal safety, Limerick State solicitor Michael Murray never flinched from his duty and responsibility to uphold the rule of law through difficult times in the city, a judge said yesterday.

A Limerick criminal who claims he is addicted to fast cars, sped through heavy city centre traffic in a stolen BMW pursued by armed gardaí, crashing into two patrol cars and a bus before knocking down a garda, a court heard.

A man, who was previously the victim of a kidnapping in which he was beaten with a hammer and held at gunpoint, has lodged an appeal against an 11-month jail sentence for a string of motoring offences.

A Limerick mother of four young children attacked a man with a bottle during a house party with such ferocity that doctors feared he would not survive the brain injuries that he received.

A couple, both drug addicts, were jailed yesterday for a total of nine years for attacking an elderly Limerick man who was out walking as part of his exercise regime before undergoing heart surgery.

A Limerick priest has given his blessing to pubs opening on Good Friday.

A Limerick man in his 60s out walking as part of his exercise regime before heart surgery was knocked to the ground by a woman who went through his pockets before making off with his wallet containing €200, the court heard.

A punch thrown by a “big powerful rugby player” had such force that the brain of his victim bounced from side to side inside the skull and only surgery at University Hospital Cork saved his life, a court heard.

A Limerick man has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a boy at a Kerry holiday home 36 years ago.

The trial opened in Limerick yesterday of a man accused of carrying out sexual acts on a neighbouring child during a three-year period.

The sentences handed down at Limerick Circuit Court on December 15 to two cousins, who were involved in a burglary in which the bachelor homeowner died of a heart attack when he went to challenge the intruders, is to be appealed by the DPP as unduly lenient.

A drug addict who threatened to shoot a 13-year-old schoolboy during a 20-minute crime spree while high on drugs has been jailed at Limerick Circuit Court.

The son of a murdered Limerick crime boss was jailed yesterday for giving a false statement to gardaí about a serious car accident in which a woman in her 80s was knocked down and badly injured.

Two criminals, both with long lists of previous convictions, ignored pleas for help from a dying man’s sister as they fled from his home which they had just burgled. They have now been jailed, but could be due for release within 16 months.

A taxi driver lured by a customer to an isolated rural road has since been afraid to work at night as a result of his ordeal, a court has heard.

After a period of prolonged antisocial behaviour during which the windscreen of his car was smashed twice, a middle-aged law abiding Limerick man snapped and in a state of drink-fuelled delusion tried to set fire to the home of a completely innocent neighbour, a court heard.

A Latvian woman living in Limerick married a Pakistani man — despite being already married, a court heard yesterday.

Limerick would be the last place one English visitor would return to if he ever came back to these shores, a judge said yesterday.

A drug addict who sold cannabis for a drug dealer was granted garda clearance to travel to China to teach English while he awaited his trial, a court heard.

A Limerick criminal threw down the gauntlet to gardaí, warning that if they did not back off, a certain detective’s house would be burned down.

After a number of valuable sulky race horses perished in a stable fire, a major drug dealer decided to exact revenge on the local community in East Limerick.

Three Limerick children were robbed by a man who threatened to shoot and stab them on their way to school.

A judge said yesterday that the behaviour of a 50-year-old man who followed a frightened teacher for 16km to her home at night in a “road rage” incident was “absolutely and utterly outrageous”.

A mother who used her five-year-old to steal two baskets of clothes from Penneys had a jail term overturned yesterday.

A married Limerick couple who previously were ordered to pay almost €1m to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) over an illegal money lending business, were back in court yesterday arising out of a serious assault on a man last March.

A young mother was beaten, stripped, and hosed down in a cold shower during a terror assault by her ex.