Machine-gun attack on home of gang associate

THE home of a high-profile associate of Limerick’s McCarthy-Dundon gang came under attack early yesterday when it was raked by machine-gun fire.

Jimmy Collins and his wife, Deirdre, and other family members who were in the house at Hyde Avenue, Ballinacura Weston, were not injured.

Some hours later, a pipe bomb was thrown through the window of a sitting room at a house in Bengal Terrace. Although the pipe bomb — thrown from a nearby railway line — exploded in the house, no one was injured.