A LIMERICK man who claimed he acquired a hand gun for his own protection after his uncle was shot dead will be sentenced at Limerick Circuit Court today.

A garda detective has denied that a man on trial for the murder of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Snr, was offered a place on the Witness Protection Programme if he turned state witness.

A 25-year-old labourer today denied an attempt on another man’s life in a shooting in Limerick city in 1998.