Feud briefing for Ahern and Garda chief

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern and Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy will visit Limerick today to get an up-to-date briefing on the developments in tackling the ongoing gang feud in the city and plans to fight city centre crime.

Mr Ahern and Commissioner Murphy will meet Chief Supt David Sheahan, Supt Frank O’Brien and Supt Ann Marie McMahon at RoxboroRoad station.

The meeting comes as the family of murdered businessman Roy Collins prepare to mark the first anniversary of his murder tomorrow. His father, Steve Collins, and other family members met Mr Ahern in Dublin last week as crime gang leader Wayne Dundon was released after serving five-and-a-half years for threatening to kill Roy Collins’s cousin, Ryan Lee, at Brannigan’s Pub.