A 12-year-old special needs boy suffered a number of injuries after he was attacked for a second time outside a community centre. Gardaí in Mayorstone, Limerick, are investigating last Friday’s incident.

Gardai discovered cannabis herb with a street value of around €100,000 when they searched a car in Limerick last night.

A pedestrian has died after he was hit by a truck on the main Limerick to Ennis road.

A gunman who fired on a house in Limerick on Tuesday night as part of a drugs feud had the wrong target, gardaí believe.

A large haul of cocaine, a handgun, ammunition and cash, have all been seized by gardai in Limerick.

An elderly man, described as “a serious risk to young children”, has been jailed for six years with the final 18 months suspended for sexually assaulting boys.

Gardaí in Bruff investigating four aggravated burglaries that occured over the last number of months have arrested three males and one female.

A 39-year-old male cyclist has died after he was hit by a car in Limerick this morning.

A CONTRACTOR in his 40s was injured when an explosion ripped through a boiler house in Limerick’s largest garda station.

A man is being treated in hospital in Limerick after been shot overnight.

DAYS after making a big heroin find at a house in Limerick, drugs squad detectives returned early yesterday to the same house and found a much larger quantity of heroin.

Two women and a man were today being questioned by detectives over the unsolved murder of a Limerick teenager.

GARDAÍ mounted huge search operations in housing estates in various parts of south Limerick City yesterday.

A 25-year-old man was arrested today over the fatal stabbing of a teenager in a suspected feud between families.

TWO men were arrested in Limerick yesterday in connection with the murder of Darren Bennett last month.

A TEENAGE girl was among six people being questioned last night in Limerick in connection with a brutal murder.

Gardaí investigating ongoing feuding in Limerick have arrested two men.

JUSTICE Minister Brian Lenihan will visit Limerick tomorrow to assess the city’s crime situation.

TWO women and two men were being questioned by gardaí in Limerick last night in connection with the murder of Gareth Grant in St Mary’s Park on October 8 last.

MEMBERS of a notoriously violent family were last night the focus of the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Hannan in Limerick.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested four people in connection with a gangland murder and the alleged abduction of a woman.

THE deployment to Limerick of just five of the 254 new gardaí who graduated from Templemore last Friday was yesterday condemned as an outrage.

Two men are in garda custody in Limerick tonight following a broad day light shooting in the Moyross estate shortly after lunchtime today.

JAIL sentences of 10 months were imposed yesterday on a Limerick couple who pleaded guilty to operating an illegal money-lending scam involving child-benefit books.

COMMUNITY gardaí in the Limerick division will today complete its first back to basics course.

THREE men were being questioned by Limerick gardaí last night in connection with the murder of 26-year-old Thomas Moran who was shot dead in Southill on November 13.

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

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

Gardaí were today hunting an armed gang after a drive-by shooting in the village of Ballyneety, Co Limerick.

A man in his early 20s is recovering in hospital following a shooting in the north side of Limerick city this morning.

LIMERICK gardaí have been left in the dark about the motive behind an incident of wholesale vandalism to public lighting in the city.

FOUR teenage youths, one under the age of 18, were arrested by Limerick gardaí yesterday in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Darren Coughlan who was savagely attacked near his home on November 4.

THE funeral Mass for Limerick man, David Nunan, who was brutally murdered last Friday was held yesterday in the same church where he served as an altar boy.

THREE uniformed Limerick gardaí were saluted yesterday for their courage in hunting down an armed gunman who fired a shotgun blast into a house.

UP to 30 armed detectives have been drafted in to Limerick from Cork and Dublin to provide back-up to gardaí, amid fears that a city gang is planning new attacks.

Six people are being questioned by gardaí in Limerick about the activities of criminal gangs in the city, including at least one feud-related murder.

Limerick gardaí have recovered a handgun and 56 rounds of ammunition.

THE garda station on King’s Island is boarded up.

Gardai have arrested four men in Limerick in connection with the murder of Kieran Keane.

Gardai at Mayorstone, Limerick are seeking the public's assistance in locating the whereabouts of 15-year-old Ann Marie Sherlock.

Gardai at Mayorstone, Limerick, have launched a murder investigation following the death of a youth in the city in the early hours of the morning.