Mayor: City’s gangs will be first dealt with by new law

LIMERICK’S mayor is confident some of the city’s feuding criminals will be among the first brought before the Special Criminal Court under new anti-gang legislation.

Cllr Kevin Kiely is chairman of the city’s joint policing authority.

He said: “As mayor, I have asked the Garda Síochána that Limerick would be first out of the traps since this new legislation was introduced as it was murders such as those of Roy Collins, Shane Geoghegan and Brian Fitzgerald that led to the new law being introduced.