An order was sought yesterday to bar a 20-year-old resident of Moyross, alleged to have been involved in shootings, stabbings, intimidation, coercion, and damage to property, from an estate.

When he could not get access to his young daughter, David Markham decided to get his own back on his former partner.

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.

A family had a lucky escape last night after their house was shot at in Limerick.

In the first of a two-part series on Limerick Regeneration, David Young talks to locals who are disillusioned by broken promises and broken homes

One hundred new houses will built in disadvantaged parts of Limerick this year under the city’s regeneration scheme, the Government said today.

AFTER a series of setbacks, construction of new houses in the Limerick Regeneration plan finally commenced yesterday when contractors moved into Cliona Park, Moyross.

AS work commenced yesterday on the first houses to be built under Limerick’s troubled regeneration programme, the mother who was at the centre of a firebomb outrage which forced government action in Limerick’s crime black spots, welcomed the new beginning.

BUILDING is finally set to commence on one of the country’s largest regeneration programmes, after contracts for a €5.5 million development in Limerick’s Moyross housing estate were signed yesterday.

THE construction of the first houses under the Limerick Regeneration plan has been further delayed, as the chosen building firm has halted a number of projects and laid off 450 workers.

FINE GAEL finance spokesman and Limerick City candidate, Michael Noonan, yesterday claimed the huge regeneration plan for the city had lost its way and the huge support it had was now gone.

AN army bomb disposal team were called in by gardaí yesterday after a suspect explosive device was found in a search in Moyross.

A controlled explosion has been carried out on a suspect device found at a Limerick housing estate.

Limerick gardaí have sealed off part of the city, following the discovery of a suspected explosive device.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has described the Government’s plans for the regeneration of Limerick as a “once in a generation” opportunity to address planning failures of the past.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen today gave the green light to a €337m redevelopment of deprived areas in Limerick.

A NUMBER of people were remanded at Limerick City Court yesterday arising out of recent disturbances in Moyross.

GARDAÍ have identified a main suspect in the murder of a Limerick teenager early yesterday.

TWO Limerick men have been given suspended jail sentences for keeping horses on properties attached to their council houses in Moyross.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday came riding to assistance of the Moyross light cavalry whose members have been shot at and kidnapped in the Limerick feud.

A WOMAN narrowly escaped death early yesterday when her home in Limerick was targeted in two firebomb attacks in the space of less then four hours.

Two men are in garda custody in Limerick tonight following a broad day light shooting in the Moyross estate shortly after lunchtime today.

THE part-time security man murdered in Limerick early yesterday was the stepfather of the Murray children Millie and Gavin who were badly burned in a fire-bomb attack in Moyross last September.

Five Limerick men who were involved in a pitched battle in the city today began their appeal against their jail sentences.

SEVEN people appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court last night charged in connection with a “pitched battle” which could have resulted in serious injury or loss of life, gardaí claimed.

GARDAÍ in Limerick were yesterday questioning two men in connection with the brutal murder of 47-year- old John Ryan, the third victim to die in the bloody feud in the city.

JUNIOR Minister for Justice Willie O’Dea, yesterday made an impassioned plea to the two main families involved in the on-going bloody feud in Limerick city to end the cycle of violence once and for all.

A MAN was shot dead in Limerick last night, the latest casualty in a bloody feud between crime gangs which has plunged the city into terror.

A PARISH priest made an impassioned plea for peace yesterday at the funeral of a Limerick murder victim.

FEARS of a revenge attack were growing in the Moyross area of Limerick city after a 23-year-old man was murdered on his way home from a party early yesterday morning.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating a possible link between two shooting incidents in the Moyross area within three days, it emerged yesterday.

Bail has been refused to two cousins who are accused of being in possession of a Kalashnikov assault rifle at Cliona Park, in Moyross, Limerick on August 23.

A GARDA told a court yesterday how he feared for the safety of the people of Limerick as two men were charged with possessing a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Two men have been arrested following a shooting in Limerick.