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Suited and booted for handbag snatch
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie Gardai are seeking a well-dressed man who tried to rob a woman’s handbag outside a Limerick city bank last week. The culprit was identified as one of two men who...
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Father avoids jail for abusing 8-year-old daughter
by Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie A FATHER who repeatedly sexually abused his daughter from the age of eight avoided a jail term after a Circuit Court judge suspended a two-year prison sentence...
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Gilligan’s murdered driver was McCarthy Dundon enforcer
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie THE MURDER of a Limerick man in Dublin last Saturday night is believed to have been connected to the shooting of drug dealer John Gilligan earlier this month....
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Law students hear of miscarriages of justice
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie THE next generation of law makers have been warned that miscarriages of justice still exist. Gerry Conlon and Paddy Joe Hill served a combined total of 31 years...
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Bail denied over shot gun allegations
BAIL has been refused to a man charged in connection with a shooting in Limerick last December. Ian Horgan (30), with an address at Lenihan Avenue but originally from Cork, is charged with the alleged...
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Reduced sentence for dancing on boy’s head
A Limerick man who left a schoolboy permanently brain damaged after he “danced on his head” will have a 12 year prison term reduced after the Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that the sentence was...
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Specialist garda unit needed to tackle gun crime
Andrew carey andrew@limerickpost.ie A SPECIALIST garda unit should be set up to specifically tackle gun crime as attacks escalate, according to a Limerick TD. Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Justice Niall...
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Gardaí confronting city centre crime wave
by Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie “IT won’t be long before there’s another murder here”. That was the stark prediction from a Limerick city centre resident who claims the area he is living in has...
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Dundon seeks judicial review of Geoghegan murder amid taping allegations
by Andrew Carey | andrew@limerickpost.ie CONVERSATIONS had by convicted murderer John Dundon and his legal team at both garda stations and prisons, alleged to have been recorded by the associated...
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Give closed garda stations back to community
by Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie ABANDONED Garda stations should be given back to the communities they served and not be sold off for “paltry sums”, according to a county Limerick barrister and...
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20 months for 22-year-old’s crime spree
A YOUNG Limerick man who ransacked a parked car last August, broke in to the Holy Rosary Parish Centre and took a ceiling projector in October, broke in to a house on the Ennis Road and was found in...
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Prison sentence for failing to send children to school
A LIMERICK mother has been convicted of failing to send her child to school and sentenced to three weeks in prison. However, Judge Eugene O’Kelly said he would suspend the sentence for eight months on...
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Limerick mother seeks truth about her daughter’s death
A LIMERICK mother is looking for the “full truth” of the circumstances surrounding the death of her 16-year-daughter whose body was found in the city canal last year. Shauna O’Sullivan was described...
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Limerick family held captive in armed raid
A FAMILY in county Limerick were held captive at gunpoint last night when four masked men raided their home and locked them, including three young children, in a bathroom. Gardai are investigating the...
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Gardai uncover ecstasy drugs factory in Limerick
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie A DRUGS factory as well as ecstasy tablets were discovered at a house in Limerick as part of a planned operation into tackling drug crime in the Mid West region....
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Murder accused was supplying drugs from her prison cell
by Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie A LITHUANIAN nurse was supplying drugs from her Limerick prison cell where she was being held on a charge alleging that she murdered her mother on Christmas Eve....
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Revolving prison door criticised
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie THE “revolving door” system at Limerick Prison has been heavily criticised by a judge after a thief committed further crimes after he was released just weeks into...
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Don’t drink and drive – Gardai launch nationwide operation
Andrew Carey andrew@linerickpost.ie AS part of Operation Surround Gardai will set up nationwide mandatory alcohol testing checkpoints as part of the Easter Bank Holiday Road Safety campaign. The...
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Garda warning over anti social behaviour
by Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie WITH anti-social behaviour on the upsurge, Gardaí in Limerick are appealing to parents to be aware of their children’s whereabouts. The appeal comes from the...
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153 drunk drivers arrested last weekend as motoring offences rise
Andrew Carey andrew@limerickpost.ie LIMERICK drivers, as with many more throughout the country continue to hold and use a mobile phone while driving despite a prolific public campaign highlighting the...
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