A taxi driver forced to drive at knife point by a convicted rapist, has described the ordeal as the "most traumatic event of his life".

Nama is pursuing businessman Garrett Kelleher for €46.8m summary judgment orders arising mostly from a limited guarantee relating to substantial loans made by the former Anglo Irish Bank for developments in Ireland, the US and Belgium.

The man who raped and killed beautician Rachel Kiely in 2000 has moved to Limerick to live with the sister of a gang rapist.

A prisoner under psychiatric care found hanging in his cell at Limerick prison, was not on suicide watch, an inquest has heard.

The low-profile former Mr Big of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was responsible for one of its most notorious murders, now runs a drugs operation in Limerick and Cork with a well-known former businessman, it has emerged.

Two men have been arrested after a taxi driver was held up in Limerick on Saturday night.

A man who took part in the gang rape of a woman in Cratloe, Co Clare in 2004, when he was aged 16, has been jailed this afternoon for failing to notify Gardaí of where he was living.

CompiledJanuary 2005: Paul Buckley, aged 32, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher, was given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler for the rape and assault causing harm of a 25-year-old woman in the garden of a house in April 2002.

A Limerick man who participated in a savage gang-rape of a woman in a wood last year has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A KEEN sports fan, friends of murdered hackneyman Liam Moloney were surprised when he failed to show up for the Ireland rugby match on Saturday.

THE teenage ringleader of a savage gang rape had been released from prison early as a cost-saving measure, it has been claimed.

Four teenagers who violently gang-raped a Limerick woman were sentenced to a total of 31 years’ detention today.

Four teenagers raped a Limerick woman after locking her partner in the boot of a car and attacking them both with golf clubs, a court heard today.

MISSISSIPI meets the mud-flats of the Shannon Estuary. Even though it may be 90 years since independence, these Antebellum mansions at Cratloe in Co Clare, could almost be called post-Colonial.

Five youths were due in court today in connection with a brutal rape and attack in Co Clare.

Five youths were remanded in custody in Co Clare tonight after being charged with rape, false imprisonment and robbery.

Gardaí in Co Clare have arrested four teenagers and a man in his 20s in connection with a serious sexual assault in Cratloe Woods this morning.

Gardaí in Co Clare have arrested four teenagers in connection with a serious sexual assault in Cratloe Woods this morning.

GARDA divers have been drafted in to help in the search for two Limerick brothers abducted last week.

TENSIONS were mounting in Limerick last night following violent scenes outside the city's circuit court as the search for two brothers who were abducted at gunpoint continues.

A retired teacher has denied that one of the alleged victims of sexual abuse at a special school in Limerick was ever pushed in a lake and left to find his own way back from a school outing.