A 35-year-old woman has gone on trial accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend in Limerick in December 2015.

Gardaí in Limerick are this morning expected to launch a murder investigation after the body of a well-known athlete was found in the back garden of a suburban house yesterday.

Two men, who have been found guilty of a double Limerick murder, have been given mandatory life sentences each at the Central Criminal Court following a three-week trial.

Two cousins have been convicted of the murder of a man and a woman who were shot in a house in Limerick last year.

The jury in a Limerick double-murder trial is to commence its deliberations tomorrow morning.

The jury in a double Limerick murder trial were shown CCTV footage of the movements of two people through O'Malley Park prior to the shootings in which two people were killed.

A mobile phone forensic analysis has given evidence in a double Limerick murder trial that one of the accused telephoned the partner of one of the victim four times three hours after the murders had taken place.

A trial of two men accused of a double murder in Limerick has heard today that a brother of one of the accused told gardaí he saw “a gun pointed down towards the ground” in the back seat of a car he and the two accused were travelling in.

A man has told a trial of two men accused of a double murder in Limerick that one of the accused called to his house to collect a gun the morning of the shootings.

The partner of a Limerick man who was shot dead along with another woman in his home has told a trial one of the accused arrived at her house the day of the killings to offer his condolences but that he “seemed agitated”.

A sister of Limerick murder victim Breda Waters has admitted at the Central Criminal Court she was having an affair with one of the accused but it ended a month prior to the shooting dead of Ms Waters and Desmond Kelly.

A trial of two men accused of a double murder in Limerick has heard the victims “met death in a violent fashion.”

A suspected drink driver opened fire on two gardaí with a rifle before pulling out a licensed shotgun and killing himself.

THERE were dramatic scenes outside Limerick courthouse yesterday when a group of more than 50 men, women and children tried to attack two men who were brought there on murder charges in relation to the shooting dead of Des Kelly and Breda Waters over a week ago.

A 27-year-old man has appeared before Limerick District Court charged in connection with the death of Dariusz Wiskowski.

Four people are being questioned by gardaí this afternoon in connection with the death of a Polish man in Limerick city over the weekend.

IT MAY take up to two weeks before gardaí establish if a Polish man who died following an assault at a house party in Limerick was murdered.

Gardaí have launched an investigation, following the death of a man in Limerick this morning.

THERE are just eight of these detached houses in a small estate off the Ballea Road in Carrigaline, Co Cork.