Three people have appeared before Limerick District Court charged in connection with the collapse of a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court in 2003.

A Limerick man who raped a virgin teenage French student has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Roderick Murphy at the Central Criminal Court.

A 19-year-old murder accused has told a court that every night before he goes to sleep he sees the face of a former schoolteacher who was beaten to death with an iron bar in a public park.

ARMED detectives are patrolling the northside of Limerick on a 24-hour basis following the gangland killing of John Ryan.