Gardaí from the divisional drugs unit in Limerick, assisted by the armed support unit, executed a search warrant at a house in Moyross shortly after 7.30pm, a garda spokesperson said.

The 11-year old boy was found dead in a house in Limerick city last night has been named locally as Brooklyn Colbert.

Bus and rail workers are reviewing "notorious blackspots" for antisocial behaviour ahead of Halloween.

Deprivation in Limerick’s regeneration areas is worse than before the €300m process started, a new study claims.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a teenager in Co. Clare in 2006 have arrested a man.

A Limerick man has lost his Supreme Court appeal against his conviction for the murder of a father of six on his 40th birthday in a case of mistaken identity.

Keith Earls was one of the first Irish backs to be landed with the dubious honour of being ‘the next Brian O’Driscoll’, so his first emotion when Garry Ringrose was slapped with the same tag was one of avuncular concern.

Limerick residents are to lodge a complaint with the broadcasting watchdog over the way they feel RTÉ portrayed their community on a hard-hitting health show.

Statistics have found that children in Ireland born in poverty will die on average six years earlier than children born into affluence.

Paddy Flannery, Manager, Moyross Community Enterprise Centre, which also operates the play park, said he did not believe the park was specifically targeted.

The all Island deprivation index, calculated in 2011, ranks Moyross as the the single most deprived area out of 23,025 areas on the island of Ireland. 

A drunk fisherman caught himself a free ride into Garda custody by clinging to the roof of a taxi, a court has heard.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating death threats made to Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan, who took criminal gangs to task over their horse ownership.

A Limerick mother of four young children attacked a man with a bottle during a house party with such ferocity that doctors feared he would not survive the brain injuries that he received.

An insurer refused to pay out a €30,000 claim after a house fire in Moyross, Limerick, as the man had failed to declare criminal links.

A community-supported school bus is ensuring that 15 homeless children living in emergency accommodation in the city get to school every day.

A busy corner of Limerick City is transformed into a space of quiet reflection and prayer during Christmas as people converge to remember absent loved ones.

A man has been arrested following the seizure of cannabis and cocaine worth more than a quarter of a million euro in Limerick.

A man was arrested in Cork and charged with carrying out a midweek robbery at a filling station in Limerick City.

The Collopys first got involved in the illicit drug trade in the late 1990s just as the notorious Limerick gang feud began to explode, writes David Raleigh.

Limerick’s bid for European Capital of Culture in 2020 went off without a hitch on Tuesday July 12, with limerick looking like the lady it is for the eight hour tour the visiting judges were brought on.

A 20-year-old son of a convicted gangland murderer yesterday received a three-year prison sentence after telling three teen soccer fans that he would kill them.

The rows of concrete wreckage which form streets through St Mary’s Park are a stark definition of how the much-vaunted Limerick Regeneration Plan has failed this community, writes Jimmy Woulfe

A notorious Limerick killer, has awoken from a coma after he was found last Thursday "unresponsive" in his cell at Mountjoy Prison, following a suspected drugs overdose.

A man was found “unresponsive” in his cell at Mountjoy Prison following a suspected drugs overdose yesterday.

The son of EuroMillions winner Dolores McNamara, Gary, has been left nursing a €128,778 bill after thieves “gutted” his mansion of all its antique chandeliers, light fittings, brass items, and copper piping.

Three Limerick teenagers — two girls and a boy — were attacked when taking a shortcut to school yesterday morning.

Latest:: Enda Harris has been found safe and well.

Two men who went AWOL after pleading guilty to charges in connection with a burglary at the lakeside mansion owned by the son of Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara are now behind bars.

A major figure connected with a feud of Limerick drugs gangs has survived a further attempt on his life, it emerged yesterday.

Garda Joseph Glackin counted himself lucky to be alive as he sat among guests yesterday at Templemore College watching 97 gardaí march past at their graduation.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show has been given a 12-month ‘rap on the knuckles’ by a judge.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show, has been given a 12-month 'rap on the knuckles' by a judge.

A major Limerick criminal who gardaí suspect was involved in the failed murder attempt of convicted crime boss Christy Keane, previously tried to burn to death members of Keane’s family in an arson attack, the Irish Examiner has learned.

For decades Christy Keane’s family ran a sizeable coal delivery business from their base in St Mary’s Park, better known as the Island Field. He soon discovered his delivery business was an ideal cover to get into drugs.

A pensioner injured in a dramatic hit-and-run accident in Co Clare has passed away.

Senator James Heffernan and Dr Chris Luke lay out the pros and cons for leagalising cannabis in Ireland. Have your say in our poll below.

The circumstances in which a Limerick woman was found with a powerful submachinegun were the most “bizarre and bewildering” a judge had ever come across.