Security stepped up amid gang violence fears

ARMED patrols have been stepped up in Limerick amid fears of an outbreak of violence between the feuding McCarthy Dundon and Keane Collopy factions following a gun attack on the home of one gang leader.

Members of the Keane Collopy gang based in St Mary’s Park are suspected of carrying out a gun attack on the home of John Dundon, a major figure in the McCarthy Dundon gang, on Wednesday morning.

Dundon’s house at Hyde Road, Ballinacurra Weston was hit a number of times by automatic gunfire while members of his family were in the house.