Neighbours of a Limerick bouncer have told the jury in the trial of four men accused of the killing at the Central Criminal Court how they woke up on the night of the shooting to hear gunshots.

JAMES MARTIN CAHILL spent his 28th birthday carrying out the murder of Limerick bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

THE arrests of a top Limerick crime boss in London and publican Jim O’Brien in Brussels have turned up the heat on the city’s criminal underworld; and the screw tightened further when hired killer James Cahill offered to grass on several top criminals in return for protection for him and his family.

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.