ART will attempt to imitate life as a string of boarded-up houses in a Limerick estate are painted and decorated to give the impression they are occupied.

ARMED members of the Garda Regional Response Unit monitored the funeral of Limerick crime boss Philip Collopy yesterday, as a horse-drawn hearse bearing an aluminium casket made its way through the city centre.

A FAST food outlet which is connected to the family of Limerick drugs boss, Christy Keane was attacked in an arson attack early yesterday morning.

LIMERICK man recalled being blasted by a sawn-off shotgun as he walked to a late night house party with a friend who was wearing a bulletproof vest.

A SCHOOLBOY aged 14 was found wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a knife when he was arrested early yesterday in Limerick’s St Mary’s Park.

GARDAÍ yesterday arrested a teenager after two gunmen terrorised a Limerick community. They are looking for another man.

Two Limerick teenagers have been sent forward for trial for the murder of an 18-year-old youth in the city a year ago.

SHOTS were fired at gardaí in Limerick yesterday, while they were investigating two earlier shooting incidents.

Nine men convicted of charges relating to a “pitched battle” between members of Limerick feuding factions outside a family restaurant, have been jailed for a total of just over 38 years.

The trial of five Limerick men accused of murdering fellow Limerick man Kieran Keane continued in legal argument at the Central Criminal Court today.

LIMERICK City Council may have to spend three quarters of a million euro next year to buy houses in three trouble estates to prevent them falling into the hands of criminal gangs.

THE garda station on King’s Island is boarded up.

A DISTRICT court judge has ordered the arrest of Liam Keane, whose trial for murder collapsed at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday.

THE heavily armed garda emergency response unit is trying to restore calm in Limerick following a brutal shooting.