The Moyross monks are taking on the cream of Munster sport in a charity event, writes David Young

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 of the country’s youngest rap stars is planning to release a CD after winning €2,000 to purchase his own recording equipment.

An attempt by five Limerick men to appeal their murder convictions to the country’s highest court failed today.

Five Limerick men have lost a bid to bring an appeal against their convictions for the murder of crime boss Kieran Keane to the Supreme Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in the case of five Limerick men who want their appeal against their murder conviction to be dealt with by the Supreme Court.

A bid by five Limerick men to have an appeal against their murder convictions dealt with by the Supreme Court gets underway before the Court of Criminal Appeal on Monday next.

TOMMY DALY is firmly convinced the regeneration plan is “going nowhere” as far as Moyross is concerned.

A CRIMINAL regarded as one of the most dangerous men ever to walk the streets of Limerick was last night starting a second life sentence for murder.

GARDAÍ fear a Limerick criminal may try to con cash out of people by pretending to be a monk.

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

An elite squad of armed gardaí was today drafted into a Limerick housing estate to keep the peace after a teenager was stabbed to death.

A LOW-BUDGET film that has just been made in Limerick will give the city a better “brand”, according to its producer.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has doubled the prison sentence imposed on a Limerick man who admitted possessing a rifle with a telescopic sight attached and ammunition after finding that the original sentence of two years was unduly lenient.

A HOME owner who has vowed to oppose plans by Limerick’s regeneration board to bulldoze Moyross, says he wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

Gardaí are investigating two separate early morning shooting incidents in Limerick.

Five men serving prison sentences for the murder of a notorious Limerick crime boss today had their application to appeal the convictions dismissed.

A NOTORIOUS Limerick gang is suspected of carrying out the city’s latest murder after a man was gunned down on a busy street yesterday morning.

DURING a high-speed incident involving feud gangs, a gunman opened fire while hanging out a car window weaving in and out of traffic, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A LIMERICK pizza deliveryman thought he was in big trouble early yesterday for getting a Moyross order wrong.

A LIMERICK drugs dealer suspected of murdering a heroin addict in Southill is believed to have fled the country.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today came under pressure in the Dáil after the latest fatal shooting – the third attack of its kind in just over a week.

A Garda investigation was under way today after a man was shot dead in Drogheda.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating a shooting incident in Moyross early this morning.

LIMERICK was yesterday counting the cost of Hallowe’en night fire-bombings and street attacks which forced the city bus service to close down at 7pm.

SIX people, including two women, were arrested in Limerick last night as part of a garda anti-feud operation.

A 20-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being injured in an overnight shooting in the Moyross area of Limerick.

A 20-year-old Limerick man, has appeared before a special court sitting on charges connected to a firearms and ammunition seizure in the city yesterday.

A 15-year-old boy and a woman in her 40s are recovering in hospital after being shot overnight in the Moyross area of Limerick.

Gardaí are investigating a gun attack in Limerick city overnight in which a 22-year-old man was killed.

YOUR reporter Jimmy Woulfe made a good attempt (Irish Examiner, September 13) to explain the bizarre situation of how the Limerick City Council estates of Delmege Park, Pineview Gardens and Cravel Park in Moyross are actually in the county council area.

TWO Limerick youths, aged 17, were remanded in custody at a special sitting of Limerick District Court last night in connection with Sunday’s fire bomb attack.

PINEVIEW Gardens, Moyross, is an address emblazoned across the media, since Sunday’s car fire in which Millie, six, and Gavin, four, Murray received horrific injuries.

A brother of murdered Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane is in a serious condition in hospital this morning after being shot at his home in the St Mary's Park area last night.

A man is recovering in hospital following a shooting incident at his home in Limerick.

LOTTO millionaire Dolores McNamara has a dark family secret.

A Limerick man said today he knew the identity of the gunmen who shot him.

Gardaí were today investigating reports a well-known Limerick figure had been shot in the face with a shotgun.

Fifteen rounds of ammunition and a sawn-off shotgun were seized by gardaí in Limerick last night as part of their ongoing crackdown on criminal activity in the city.

LIMERICK gardaí were last night investigating the fifth shooting incident in the city in a week.

A MAN slightly injured in Limerick’s third shooting incident this week told gardaí he hid for more than an hour as the gunman searched to finish him off.

Gardaí in Limerick are on high alert this weekend following a third serious shooting incident in the city in less than a week.

Gardaí in Limerick have recovered arms and ammunition following a number of planned searches today at various locations in the city.

THE man shot and wounded early yesterday in Limerick was named locally as Aaron O’Brien from Delmege Park, Moyross.