Deadly feud claims another victim as man gunned down

A MAN was shot dead in Limerick last night, the latest casualty in a bloody feud between crime gangs which has plunged the city into terror.

John Ryan, who was married with a family, was working outside his house in High Road, Thomondgate, around 6.30pm when a motorbike with two passengers approached him. The pillion passenger fired four shots from a handgun, striking Mr Ryan in the stomach and leg.

He was rushed by ambulance to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital where he died shortly after 7pm.