Collopy had told court people ‘tried to shoot him every week’

THE Limerick crime boss who died late on Sunday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head, only last month told a Limerick court that people were “trying to shoot him every week”.

Collopy had told court people ‘tried to shoot him every week’

Philip Collopy, 29, was on a life support machine at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital after the shooting incident at his home in St Munchin’s St, St Mary’s Park at about 2am on Saturday.

He was under constant threat from the McCarthy Dundon gang since the murder of a rival gang figure Eddie Ryan in November 2000.

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