Four arrests in murder probe

FOUR more people were arrested by Limerick gardaí yesterday in connection with the murder of 47-year-old John Ryan.

This brings to 11 the number of people who have been detained in relation to the killing, which took place in the Thomondgate area of the city on July 7. Seven others have been released without charge.

Gardaí took three youths and a woman in her 30s into custody early yesterday morning, after they were arrested in the northside of the city.