A man yesterday told how, after he and a friend were abducted, he was freed and told his friend would be killed if his friend’s mother did not pay €500,000.

A 16-year-old boy arrested in connection with a tiger kidnapping in which the son of a Limerick sub-postmistress was abducted at gunpoint is due before Limerick District Court this morning.

THERE has been a good response to the launch of Caislean na hAbhann, Castlelands Constructions’ new development at Castletroy, in Limerick, which is ideally placed for access to the new bypass.