An army bomb disposal unit has made safe and removed a pipe bomb from a home in Limerick after it was thrown into the house this morning.

The DPP is likely to appeal the leniency of a three-year sentence handed down to a Limerick teenager who blinded a man for life after hitting him in the face with a a hurley, it has emerged.

A 19-year-old Limerick man had both his eyeballs lacerated and was blinded for life after he was assualted with a hurley, a court heard today.