A prisoner is entitled to be considered for enhanced remission for good behaviour from a six-year prison sentence, the High Court ruled.

A son of slain Limerick gangland figure Eddie Ryan has brought a High Court challenge after he was refused extended remission on a six-year jail sentence.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

Evidence entered at the John Dundon trial which has amazed many related to a meeting in Cruises St on Oct 29, 2008.

Two men linked to the notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang are to be charged with the murder of businessman Roy Collins tomorrow, it has emerged.

Many leaders of a prolific crime scene have been jailed, writes Jimmy Woulfe

SENIOR gardaí will object to any compassionate release sought by members of the McCarthy Dundon gang for the funeral of their mother who died in a road collision in London, it has emerged.

A MAN described as a “foot soldier” in Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang was jailed yesterday for six years for his role in a planned retaliation gun attack in the continuing city feud.

A MAN who had his home confiscated by the CAB and who was shot and wounded in a Limerick gang attack was jailed for eight years for intimidating a witness with the intention of perverting and interfering with the course of course of justice.

Trying to live a normal life in the face of growing gangland threats, mid-west correspondent Jimmy Woulfe talks to families hit by Limerick’s bloody feud as it reaches its 10th anniversary.

TOMORROW marks the 10th anniversary of the murder which led to an all-out war between two Limerick feuding gangs.

TWO Limerick brothers who were the alleged victims of a kidnapping in 2003 shortly before the murder of a city gang leader were yesterday jailed for a total of 14 years after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition earlier this year.

A MAN jailed for his part in the first killing in the vicious Limerick feud, has narrowly escaped death.

ARMED members of the Garda Regional Response Unit monitored the funeral of Limerick crime boss Philip Collopy yesterday, as a horse-drawn hearse bearing an aluminium casket made its way through the city centre.

THE Limerick crime boss who died late on Sunday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head, only last month told a Limerick court that people were “trying to shoot him every week”.

THE alliance between the McCarthy and Dundon families goes back to the early 1970s, when one of the McCarthy family from Ballincurra Weston married Kenneth Dundon whose family came from Ballynanty, across the city.

THE discovery yesterday of a body partly buried in open ground in Limerick is almost certainly the 10th tit-for-tat murder in the continuing feud between two rival drugs gangs.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday came riding to assistance of the Moyross light cavalry whose members have been shot at and kidnapped in the Limerick feud.

THE widow of murdered Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane survived a gun attack late on Monday night, it emerged yesterday.

THE sprawling housing estates of Moyross and St Mary’s Park were under virtual garda lockdown last night following the murder earlier in the day of Noel Campion in Thomondgate.

SPIRALLING tit-for-tat feud shootings in Limerick over recent days have created a situation “fraught with danger” the city’s garda chief warned yesterday.

EXTRA armed garda patrols were deployed in Limerick yesterday as hostilities flared between two feuding gangs who have used a grenade and automatic firearms in recent attacks.

AS Limerick today marks the anniversary of a notorious feud murder, gardaí now say they know the identity of the teenage thug who gunned down John Ryan in cold blood on July 7, 2003.

GARDAÍ were on heightened alert in Limerick last night, fearing the violent city feud is about to erupt over Christmas.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

THE two major drugs gangs in Limerick, based in St Mary’s Park and Ballinacurra Weston, get their supplies from varied sources, according to gardaí.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) last night promised further action on Limerick’s feuding crime gangs after it was allowed to seize the home of convicted criminal Brian Collopy.

The driver of the getaway car in the shooting murder of Eddie Ryan Snr in a Limerick hotel was sentenced to 15 years' jail for manslaughter today.

The trial of a Limerick man for the murder of Eddie Ryan Snr ended dramatically today when the accused pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

A relative of Limerick man Eddie Ryan Senior made a full statement implicating her partner and the father of her children in the murder of Mr Ryan, a jury has heard.

A man on trial for murder allegedly named the two gunmen he drove to and from the shooting of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Senior, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A garda detective has denied that a man on trial for the murder of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Snr, was offered a place on the Witness Protection Programme if he turned state witness.

A man said to have been the getaway driver for the killers of Limerick man Eddie Ryan Senior allegedly later admitted his involvement and retraced the route taken for gardaí, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

JOHN RYAN was the first to speak out when his missing nephews turned up safe and well after they were allegedly abducted last January.

A MAN was shot dead in Limerick last night, the latest casualty in a bloody feud between crime gangs which has plunged the city into terror.

IT’S 49 days since the Ryan brothers were abducted in Limerick.

THE mother of returned Limerick brothers Kieran and Eddie Ryan vowed yesterday she will never leave her Kileely home.

IT was all smiles on Hogan Avenue yesterday morning as the Ryans of Kileely celebrated the return of missing brothers Kieran, 19 and Eddie, 20. Family and friends who spent the last week searching for the bodies of the two brothers organised a huge party to celebrate their homecoming.

THE heavily armed garda emergency response unit is trying to restore calm in Limerick following a brutal shooting.

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

CRIME gangs in Limerick battling each other to gain control of the drugs trade in the mid-west region are among the most organised and well armed criminals in the country.