Armed detectives patrol flashpoints in city as reprisals feared

FEARS of bloody reprisal attacks in Limerick are rising after the killing of leading criminal Kieran Keane this week.

Armed detectives are patrolling flashpoints in an effort to keep the peace as the city’s public pray that no more blood will be spilled.

The execution-style shooting of Keane, aged 36, on Wednesday night, and the brutal stabbing of his nephew Owen Treacy, 30, has heightened fears of further attacks this weekend.