The owner of a bridal shop has been sent for trial at the Limerick Circuit criminal court on charges alleging theft.

A 13-year-old boy has appeared in court in Limerick charged with allegedly engaging in a lewd act with a seven-year-old boy.

A man has appeared in court charged in connection with the robbery of an 85-year-old man in Limerick City last week.

A murder investigation is under way in Limerick following the death of a 39-year-old man in the city in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Gardaí have arrested a woman after a serious assault in Limerick overnight in which another woman was hospitalised.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for questioning in connection with a shooting incident at a house in Limerick city yesterday evening.

The Garda Ombudsman yesterday said it would have referred the report of its leak inquiry to the "appropriate agency" if it had found any "definitive evidence" indicating a criminal offence.

Gardaí were alerted to University Hospital Limerick yesterday following concerns of a suspected attempted abduction of a baby.

A former bank clerk has been returned for trial over an alleged €200,000 computer fraud.

Former State witness April Collins has been banned from driving for 12 years and warned she will go to jail if she is caught driving while disqualified again.

Following their party leader’s humiliating defeat in the Seanad referendum, for the 2,000 or so Fine Gael party faithful who gathered in the modest surrounds of the South Court Hotel in Limerick, it was very much a “back to basics” weekend where Fine Gael was determined to return to its core values.

A leader of the notorious McCarthy-Dundon crime gang has been charged with the murder of Roy Collins.

Four people, including two Garda officers, were hospitalised yesterday following a dramatic two-car collision in Limerick city centre.

Work on a secure exhibits facility is nearing completion at a Garda station in Limerick.

A judge yesterday rejected a defence claim that a major Garda operation in Limerick in which gardaí posed as prostitutes was entrapment.

A Limerick man has appeared in court charged with escaping from lawful custody.

A MAN was fighting for his life last night after a knife attack on a busy city centre street in Limerick.

A WOMAN who was arrested in connection with the abduction of a temporary post office worker in Newcastle West, Limerick, which led to the extortion of €105,000, was released from custody.

A WOMAN was subjected to a terrifying ordeal at a train station in Limerick when a man hijacked her car at knifepoint, forcing her to drive to an ATM machine to withdraw cash.

TWO brothers appeared in court in Limerick on charges of threatening to kill a mother and her son and daughter.

TWO leading members of one of the country’s most notorious criminal gangs are to appear in court today on charges related to threats to kill a 23-year-old woman.

The Special Criminal Court has heard that a Limerick man feared his life would become “hell” if he made a statement to gardaí alleging a threat made against the life of his father and sister.

A WOMAN and her five young children have been forced to flee their home in Limerick after another arson attack in a Southill estate — the second this month.

GARDAÍ yesterday moved a Transit van from the grounds of Roxboro Garda Station after its owner occupied it to stage a hunger strike.

AFTER a drinking session with friends, a businessman drove his 4x4 from a Co Limerick pub on the wrong side of the road and ploughed into a car killing a retired Clonmel secondary school teacher, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

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

Two teenage girls were being questioned by murder squad detectives today over the latest suspected gangland killing.

A 27-year-old man has been seriously injured in a shooting in the Southill area of Limerick city this morning.

Gardaí in Limerick have today recovered a large quantity of drugs during a planned operation targeting ongoing criminal activity in the city.

A prison officer was arrested after being found with around 40 mobile phones and a quantity of drugs, it emerged today.

A SCHOOLGIRL killed in a road accident yesterday played for her county in a packed Croke Park on All-Ireland Football final day, it emerged last night.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested two teenagers in connection with the death of a father of three at the weekend.

The Garda Commissioner has said the force will use all means available to bring the killers of Shane Geoghegan to justice.

THE Southill shebeen was closed down last night when gardaí raided the premises.

LIMERICK city council is to discuss a plan to coral troublesome families into special housing clusters as part of the huge regeneration plans being drawn up for huge council estates.

TWO men who were arrested early yesterday morning after a car chase on the outskirts of Limerick city were detained and questioned under the Offences Against the State Act.

A man is due in court in Limerick this morning charged with the murder of a 36-year-old man in the city on Saturday night.

A man has today been arrested in Limerick in connection with the murder of another man in the city last night.

DRUGS with an estimated street value of nearly €130,000 have been seized in a number of Garda raids in Limerick.

A JUDGE yesterday rejected the evidence of a consultant psychiatrist that a Nigerian man she is treating was fit to plead to a number of charges.

THE mentally ill Nigerian man who has been moved between prison, a Garda station cell and a hotel over the past five days was admitted to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) in Dundrum last night.

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

Six Limerick teenagers have been arrested in connection with the murder of Patrick Coleman in the city last month.

A murder probe was launched tonight by gardaí investigating the death of a man in Limerick.