What was described as the top of the pyramid in the Limerick heroin distribution scene was uncovered in the kitchen of a council house during a garda raid.

A prisoner found in a coma at Limerick Prison died from a cocktail of drugs which included heroin, methadone and two types of prescription sedatives.

It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.