Roll call of jailed gangland figures

It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.

Around 60 gang members have been jailed as a result of the Garda crackdown. The bulk of the McCarthy-Dundon gang leaders and their main rivals, the Keane-Collopy outfit, are in jail, along with drug traffickers and hitmen.

There have been multiple convictions for the murders of two innocent men, rugby player Shane Geoghegan in 2008 and bouncer Brian Fitzgerald in 2002.