MUM Natasha Wallace was in despair yesterday as her six-year-old son Colby broke down in tears and told her: “Santa won’t be able to find me.”

SIX people were in custody in Limerick last night after garda raids in the city and county in which a huge quantity of cocaine and guns were seized.

A MAN who was shot and wounded in a gun attack on his home in Limerick early yesterday is a brother of the victim of another recent gun attack in the city.

GARDAÍ in Limerick say a man who received a near-fatal stab wound early yesterday may have known his attacker.

THE pregnant Limerick woman who went to jail earlier this week because she refused to pay a small fine missed her young son’s birthday yesterday as she remained behind bars.

A PREGNANT mother-of-eight who just returned from a sun holiday in Spain was locked up in Limerick jail last night over an unpaid litter fine.

A LIMERICK gang has brought in reinforcements from England while shootings continued yesterday in the latest flare-up in the city feud.

Nine men who were arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in the Comeragh mountains were jailed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Gardaí discovered four guns, a makeshift firing range and targets when they raided a suspected Continuity IRA training camp at a clearing in the Comeragh mountains, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Nine men arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford in 2003 pleaded guilty to firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

FOUR political parties wisely see nothing wrong with granting Mary McAleese a further term as president.

A Limerick man was charged at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today in connection with a garda swoop on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford in August last year.