DNA on a screwdriver found at the scene of a fatal stabbing matched the deceased and one of the two men accused of his murder, a trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Old Christians GAA club is situated in the southside of Limerick city, in between the socially deprived and crime stricken areas of Southill and Ballinacurra Weston.

A woman has told a murder trial that she tried to intervene while her boyfriend was being stabbed to death by two men.

Two Limerick men have gone on trial accused of murdering a 26-year-old man at a house party two years ago.

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.

Latest: The food bank at St John's Pavilion in Limerick has run out after handing out 2,500 food bags to struggling families and individuals today.

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.

Gruesome details of a horrific car crash which claimed the lives of two young men as they sped through a large Limerick housing estate were recalled yesterday.

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

The Collopys first got involved in the illicit drug trade in the late 1990s just as the notorious Limerick gang feud began to explode, writes David Raleigh.

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

As a woman was changing into a swimsuit at a Limerick hotel leisure centre, a man appeared out of a toilet cubicle and grabbed her breast, a court heard.

The rows of concrete wreckage which form streets through St Mary’s Park are a stark definition of how the much-vaunted Limerick Regeneration Plan has failed this community, writes Jimmy Woulfe

A man who threw a bottle of Coke at a judge last week after she refused him bail yesterday apologised in court, telling the judge: “I lost the head”.

The manager of a Limerick hotel was terrified when a man put a syringe to his neck and grabbed a cash box, a court heard.

The Court of Appeal will not review Wayne Dundon’s prison sentence for making threats to kill and intimidating witnesses, despite claims that his six-year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

A man who died in an alleged “frenzied assault” at a house last Thursday night was stabbed 23 times, Limerick Distrtict Court has heard.

Two men appeared in court in Limerick charged in connection with the death of a 31-year-old man on Thursday night.

Gardaí have brought two men before a special court sitting in Limerick charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man.

Gardaí believe a fatal stabbing in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, on Thursday night happened during a drink-fuelled row at a house party.

For success, Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs has two simple rules.

A Limerick couple escaped injury when the front of their house was raked with automatic gunfire in a drugs related attack.

Agencies in Limerick should seize on the opportunity provided by the “lull” in gangland violence and “prevent a storm” from building up again, a former detective has said.

A rider on a stolen scooter tried to ram one of two Garda cars giving chase in what is believed to be the first joyriding incident of its kind in this country.

A woman going shopping last night spotted what turned out to be a pipebomb attached to her family car in Limerick in what is believed to be an escalation of a drugs feud.

President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes lessons of doomed and delayed housing regeneration schemes have been learnt.

A few more licks of paint, fewer weeds and a very few points were all that separated the winner of the National Tidy Towns competition from the tantalisingly close runners-up.

In the opening weeks of 2008, Mary McAleese travelled to Limerick to give a grand regeneration plan her presidential seal of approval.

Limerick’s troubled regeneration plan has left a trail of disillusioned and angry families in its wake.

Former Limerick mayor John Gilligan has welcomed a planned initiative by the International Federation for Human Rights to seek fundamental rights for deprived parts of the city.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

Children as young as 10 were involved in a night of vandalism that terrified residents in a Limerick housing estate.

A close-knit Limerick community is fearful of further acts of vandalism after their local church was destroyed with paint and a derelict house was set on fire.

A convicted Limerick criminal who is giving evidence at the trial of two men charged with the murder of businessman Roy Collins was described as a “crooked snaky c**t” by his sister’s partner, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Limerick woman bit one garda and slammed a patrol car door into another, injuring both, when being arrested, a court heard.

The announced closure of an all-girls secondary school in Limerick poses a massive challenge on the already stressed placement system, a former mayor of the city has warned.

Limerick criminal Ger Dundon is a free man after he was released early from his five-year prison term.

The father of a man killed in an unprovoked attack is to make a direct appeal on television tonight to a person who claims to have information about the killing.

Limerick city’s regeneration plan, launched in 2007 with a €3bn goal of transforming four black- spot estates, was reignited yesterday with a revised €250m package over 10 years.

The man who raped and killed beautician Rachel Kiely in 2000 has moved to Limerick to live with the sister of a gang rapist.

A prisoner under psychiatric care found hanging in his cell at Limerick prison, was not on suicide watch, an inquest has heard.