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.

Limerick gardaí are confident of further developments and more charges in connection with the abduction of a young mother who was held captive in a city centre flat for six days.

ON LEAVING a Limerick pub after an argument, a drunken customer armed himself with a loaded sawn-off shot gun, put on a balaclava and returned to shoot the man he had rowed with.

A MAN arrested after a pump-action sawn-off shotgun was produced in a crowded pub was released on bail yesterday at Limerick District court.