A WOMAN died yesterday after being struck by a falling limb of a tree as she walked along a Limerick street.

A YOUNG boy was found covered in his father’s blood and screaming for help on a Limerick street, it emerged yesterday as gardaí revealed they were investigating a brutal assault in the city.

A PARANOID schizo-phrenic who was jailed for stabbing a man to death on a Limerick street was yesterday jailed for 10 years at Limerick Circuit Court for a vicious knife attack on the psychiatrist who was treating him after his release.

GARDAÍ suspect that a man found with serious head injuries on a Limerick street was assaulted.

A VICIOUS attack carried out on a busy Limerick street yesterday afternoon was not feud-related, according to gardaí.

Gardaí have increased their patrols across Limerick city following the shooting of an 18-year-old man yesterday evening.

A man in his teens remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital in Limerick this morning after he was shot by a lone masked gunman in the city yesterday evening.

AN Italian worker was killed in a freak accident on a busy Limerick street yesterday.

A MAJOR security review was under way at Limerick Prison last night after a prisoner received almost fatal stab wounds from another prisoner who was a known enemy of his.