Limerick Gardaí investigating attempted car thefts
GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating after two Japanese import cars were the target of thieves in the past few weeks. The first incident saw a white Toyota Aqua targeted on Wednesday November 22, while...
View ArticleInvestigation files complete in case of murdered Romanian mother in Limerick,...
LIMERICK Gardaí have forwarded all evidential material they have to the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland as part of a joint cross-border investigation into the murder of a mother of four...
View ArticleGarda chief vows to throw every resource into smashing Limerick drug trade
GARDA management have pledged to throw every available resource into smashing the drugs trade in Limerick. Latest data provided by Gardaí shows that detections for possession of drugs for sale or...
View Article€200,000 health and policing package announced for Christmas in Rathkeale
A TRAVELLER triage health clinic is to operate in the town of Rathkeale over the Christmas period to cater for an influx of Traveller families in the town the HSE confirmed this week. Authorities...
View ArticleMan disrupts attempted break-in at neighbour’s Colemanswell house
IT WAS a close call when a man prevented his neighbour’s house from being broken into recently by disturbing would-be thieves while they were in the act. The man, who lives in the Colemanswell area,...
View ArticleThree arrested in connection with Limerick arson attack released without charge
GARDAÍ have released without charge three men who were arrested this past Wednesday (December 13) in connection with an arson attack on a house in Limerick City. A week prior to the blaze, the body of...
View ArticleNew Garda operation in Limerick to target retail crime
LIMERICK retailers and retail workers will benefit from a new Garda operation focusing on organised retail crime. That’s according to Fine Gael senator Maria Byrne, who this week welcomed the...
View ArticleExtra vigilance urged following multiple car thefts across Limerick City’s...
GARDAÍ are urging people in the northside of Limerick City to be extra vigilant after a number of car-related thefts were reported late last month. On Thursday (November 30), a woman in her 30s parked...
View ArticleLimerick Gardaí warn partygoers to stay streetwise this Christmas
STAYING streetwise is the best way to stay safe this Christmas season. That’s the advice from Limerick Gardaí facing into the festive season as Christmas parties and seasonal cheer reach the top of the...
View ArticleMan arrested after €100,000 drugs and firearm seizure in Limerick suburb
A SUBSTANTIAL drugs seizure was made in Limerick yesterday (December 18). Gardaí seized over €100,000 worth of drugs, along with a firearm, and a number of rounds of ammunition during a planned search...
View ArticleAlmost €20,000 awarded to 11-year-old boy who ‘looked like a shark’ after...
AN 11-year-old boy who looked “like a shark” after suffering multiple injuries across a number of teeth when playing with his older brother on a ‘windsurfer rocker’ at Lahinch playground has been...
View Article‘Live operation’ underway into ‘significant’ suspected drugs seizure at...
A MAJOR security operation involving Revenue Customs Service officials, supported by An Garda Síochána, is underway tonight at Foynes Port, County Limerick. The operation is understood to involve the...
View ArticleShip docked at Foynes Port to be searched today after massive haul of cocaine...
A MAJOR security operation involving Revenue Customs Service officials, supported by An Garda Síochána, following a massive cocaine seizure yesterday (Tuesday), is continuing this Wednesday morning at...
View ArticleGardaí examining if €21m cocaine haul was organised by network of crime gangs
GARDAÍ suspect that a €21million haul of cocaine, found on a cargo ship at Foynes Port in County Limerick on Tuesday (December 19), was organised by a network of criminal gangs rather than one single...
View ArticleJustice Minister says ‘top priority’ is to ‘disrupt and dismantle’ drug gangs...
THE Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has said her “top priority” is to ensure Gardaí in Limerick and the wider Mid West region are resourced enough to dismantle gangs involved in flooding the...
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with €100,000 drugs haul released without charge
A MAN who was arrested in connection with a €100,000 drugs and firearm seizure in Limerick earlier this week has been released without charge. Gardaí seized over €100,000 worth of drugs, along with a...
View ArticleFive arrested in wake of €21m cocaine haul at County Limerick port
GARDAÍ arrested five men this morning (Friday) in connection with the largest seizure of cocaine in the Mid West region last Tuesday. The five men, who range in age from their 30s to their 50s, were...
View ArticleJudge grants protection order to mother of 11-day-old baby girl against...
A JUDGE has granted a domestic violence protection order to a mother of an 11-day-old baby girl against the father of the newly born baby. At the Family Law Court, a judge granted the woman the...
View ArticleCorbett family disappointed at ‘cushy’ prison move for Tom Martens
THE daughter of murdered Janesboro man Jason Corbett has expressed her disappointment at the news that one of her father’s killers was recently moved to a minimum security prison, just weeks after he...
View ArticlePublic understanding of hate crimes under the microscope in Limerick study
A MAJOR new cross-border study has found that a majority of people on the island of Ireland view hate crimes as a “serious and growing problem” in their area. The study, ‘Public Understandings of Hate...
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