Council to buy homes in trouble estates

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.

Dozens of homes have been snapped up by the city’s feuding gangs in St Mary’s Park, Moyross and Southill.

A proposal before the city council will allow the local authority to buy the 20 houses that become available in these estates annually.