Water cannon needed to tackle ‘rampaging youths’

FOLLOWING the jailing of a Limerick man yesterday after a mob attacked the emergency services on a late night call, the Limerick State Solicitor Michael Murray called for the deployment of water cannon in the city to tackle street violence.

At Limerick District Court, Darragh Quinlivan, aged 23, of Crecora Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, was jailed for three months when he pleaded guilty to smashing the windscreen of a fire tender that had been called to a fire at Ballinacurra Weston on June 5 last.

Inspector Seamus Gallagher said the window of the fire tender was smashed with a rock thrown by the accused, who was standing among a crowd of others on the street at around 3.30am. More than €400 worth of damage was caused to the fire tender.