‘I’ll stay in city unless someone shoots me’

A businessman who has been under armed guard for over eight years says he has no intention of leaving Limerick despite the continuing threat to him and his family.

A defiant Phil Treacy, whose son Owen Treacy helped put away some of the city’s most dangerous criminals, says he has no intention of moving unless someone “shoots me”.

Mr Treacy spoke out after Steve Collins and his family were forced to leave the country because of continued intimidation. Mr Collins’s son Roy was shot dead by a member of the McCarthy/Dundon gang in 2009.