‘We’ve paid the ultimate price’

Two of Limerick’s most dangerous criminals have received life sentences for the murder that finally forced the city to fight back.

‘We’ve paid the ultimate price’

On April 9, 2009, innocent father-of-two Roy Collins, 35, was shot in the chest while he worked at his amusement arcade at the Roxboro Rd shopping centre.

He was not the intended target. The hitman was supposed to kill his father, businessman Steve Collins, who had helped gardaí in a previous investigation and has now been forced to live a life in hiding abroad.

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