Crime clean-up brings jobs to Limerick in local economic boom

Limerick, with its new ‘safe city’ labelling, is enjoying the fruits of a local economic boom as jobs’ successes replace crime headlines.

With gardaí firefighting gangland murders on the streets of the capital, colleagues in Limerick have put the lid on serious crime.

In 2007, at the height of a gangland feud in Limerick, 102 shootings were recorded. So far this year, the number of shooting incidents in Limerick was three, a mammoth decrease in gun crime.