Murder hunt: Three released

THREE of the five people arrested on Monday in connection with the abduction and murder of a Limerick teenager, were released without charge last night.

The five, four men and a woman, aged between 20 and 36, were arrested in raids carried out in the Ballinacurra Weston area of Limerick and brought to Garda stations in Ennis, Shannon and Killaloe.

The arrests were made as part of the investigation into the death of Richard “Happy” Kelly, aged 17.