A teenager and an older man, who are being questioned by gardaí on suspicion of murdering a Limerick boxer in a hit and run yesterday, have been transferred to garda stations in Limerick following their arrests in the Midlands last night.

Gardaí investigating a fatal hit-and-run in Limerick in which boxer Kevin Sheehy was killed have arrested two men in connection with the incident.

Garda sources said that, as part of several lines of inquiry, they were investigating if Kevin Sheehy, (20), from John Carew Park, Limerick, was specifically targeted.

Martina Heelan has been found safe and well.

The family of a Limerick man whose partial skeletal remains were discovered in 2001 have issued a fresh appeal for information about his death.

Gardaí have made a fresh appeal for information in relation to a hammer attack on a man in Co Limerick last March.

A man has appeared at a special sitting of Limerick District Court in connection with a drugs seizure in the city yesterday.

Gardaí have appealed for anyone who may have dash cam footage of a horse transporter that overturned while travelling along the N24, just outside Limerick, last night.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating a serious assault and robbery which happened in Dooradoyle on Saturday night.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses after a boy was seriously injured after a car collided with the child’s scooter in Limerick City yesterday evening.

Gardaí investigating a fatal road traffic collision at Tubberyquinn, Ballyneety, Co. Limerick, shortly after midnight on the 20th March are appealing for witnesses.

A man was discovered dead in his car following a minor road traffic collision in Co Limerick this morning.

The daughter of a man beaten to death with an axe has made an emotional appeal for witnesses to help find justice for her family.

Three men are due to appear before a special sitting of Limerick District Court at 2pm today in relation to an apparent stabbing in Rahen, Co Limerick last Saturday.

Gardaí have appealed for information after a suspect device was thrown into a house in Limerick overnight.

A six-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a van on Friday.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot in the stomach in Limerick.

A racist remark over the Manchester suicide bombing may have led to a fatal lunchtime attack in Limerick city centre yesterday. 

A man died when a knife pierced his heart during a "violent and frenzied" attack, a pathologist has told a murder trial.

Two men have appeared in court charged with possession of a pump-action shotgun.

A Limerick man accused of threatening to kill another man and damaging property more than two years ago has been refused bail by the Special Criminal Court.

Drug gangs in Limerick have been hit hard during a series of garda raids, on the back of the seizure of €170,000 worth of illegal drugs.

A Limerick man, who gardaí allege is a senior criminal figure, has appeared in court charged in connection with a high-speed chase over the weekend.

A man has appeared in court charged in connection with an alleged dangerous high-speed chase with Gardaí, at the weekend.

A man armed with a sawn-off shotgun roamed Limerick on a pedal bike in broad daylight, seeking to shoot people. He wounded one man on a busy street while the victim was chatting to a group including young girls, one with special needs.

Two men have been charged before a special court sitting with possession of an assortment of weapons during the course of a row in Limerick.

Gardaí have brought two men before a special court sitting in Limerick charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man.

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.

For success, Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs has two simple rules.

The father of a missing man, whom he fears was murdered 15 years ago, has made a heartfelt plea for information about what happened to his son.

A woman has been charged with stabbing another woman with a broken bottle in a street attack in Limerick City.

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

Two men have been arrested in Limerick after Gardaí seized a firearm following an incident in the Jonesboro area.

Gardaí have appealed for information after the father of Ireland and Leinster rugby scrum half Eoin Reddan was held up and robbed by at least one man in his home last night.

A 26-year-old man has been injured in a shooting in Limerick City.

The minister for justice has asked gardaí to send him an up-to-date report on the murder file of innocent teenager Jeffrey Hannan.

Four sulkies raced along a main road at sunrise near Limerick city yesterday in a dawn challenge for big money.

Gardaí investigating a serious assault on a man in Limerick yesterday have arrested a third person.

Thirteen years after his disappearance, the parents of Aengus Gussie Shanahan have spoken out about how they believe he was murdered near a pub in Limerick.

Two men have been arrested after a taxi driver was held up in Limerick on Saturday night.

Limerick gardaí say they are satisfied a girl aged 14, had sex with a 17-year-old in a van, parked at the city’s Crescent Shopping Centre.

A Dublin man on trial for membership of the IRA was a passenger in a car being driven by a convicted IRA member before both men were stopped by gardai, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

THE parents of two missing men feared murdered have issued fresh appeals for information about the whereabouts of their sons.

The Shane Geoghegan murder trial has today heard that the apparent intended target lived four doors away from the rugby player on the night he was shot, in a case of mistaken identity.