"This feud is going on for years, we are fighting to the death"

FEUDING gang members in Limerick pledged violent revenge would be exacted on whoever was responsible for the abduction of two young men yesterday.

A Garda helicopter was being used last night to search for Eddie Ryan Jnr, 20, and his 19-year-old brother Kieran, both of whom were bundled into a car by two armed men in the Ballynanty area of Limerick city shortly after 10.30pm on Thursday night.

Their father, Eddie Ryan Snr was shot dead in a gangland killing in a Limerick city pub two years ago.