Eight Limerick men facing a variety of charges including violent disorder, making threats to kill and demanding money with menaces will stand trial together in March next year.

Eight Limerick men arrested as part of an investigation into extortion appeared briefly at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

EIGHT Limerick men are to face charges including extortion and threats to kill at the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

A HIGH-PROFILE Limerick figure last night sparked political outrage after he appeared on a court prison video link with his face partially masked by a bandana mask and making a finger gestures to the camera.

A €3.5 MILLION settlement was approved by the High Court yesterday for a 24-year-old woman who suffered severe brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result of alleged negligence in the circumstances of her birth at Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital.