Secret peace talks with Limerick gangs resume

SO-called peace talks involving Limerick’s main feud gangs resumed in secret on Thursday night at an office run by the agency brought in to regenerate crime-ridden council estates in the city.

Some of the city’s most dangerous criminals met with a person linked to the regeneration agency, who has been trying to broker talks between the McCarthy-Dundon and the Keane-Collopy gangs.

Last month a man linked to the regeneration process booked a suite at the four-star city centre Clarion Hotel after he had set up a meeting between members of the Collopy and Dundon families.