Lottery winner’s son quizzed over Keane feud attack
Gary McNamara, aged 26, and his partner and child left Limerick last September after gardaí learned there was a plan by a crime gang to abduct him. It is believed his partner was threatened this week.
Garda sources last night said teenagers Joe Keane and his cousin, Jonathan Cross, were assaulted yesterday by a group of men and were taken for treatment with non-life threatening injuries to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.
Garda sources confirmed they were interviewing a number of people in connection with the assault.
While they would not say who these are, it is believed one of those arrested was Gary McNamara.
He is a cousin of ‘Noddy’ McCarthy, one of the five men jailed for life for the murder of crime boss Kieran Keane.
Keane’s, wife, Sophie lives in Garryowen and an attempt was made to fire bomb the family home on Thursday morning. It was the second attack on it in the past three months.
In yesterday’s assault a number of men attacked Joe Keane and Jonathan Cross in Garryowen. Shots were fired at Joe Keane previously when he was on his way to a shop.
Extra armed garda units have been put in place in Limerick over Christmas amid fears that the city feud would re-ignite.
A central figure in the feud, Liam Keane, brother of Kieran Keane, was released from prison recently after serving a sentence for a non-indictable offence.
Dolores McNamara has just bought a house near Killaloe for €1.7 million and has spent €350,000 on a new house in Castleconnell for her son Gary, who was arrested yesterday.
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