Known criminal executed in gangland feud

LIMERICK’S gangland feud has claimed another life on the eve of the trial of five men charged with the murder of crime boss Kieran Keane.

A known criminal, named locally as Michael Campbell-McNamara, aged 23, was executed on Sunday night and his body discovered yesterday morning. He was found with his hands and feet tied and a bullet wound to the head.

The latest killing heightened security tensions in the city ahead of the Keane murder trial today. Keane, aged 36, was shot dead in a similar execution-style killing at Drombana last January two miles from yesterday's grim discovery.