Man accused of harassing Fianna Fáil TD online offers to apologise
AN EAST Clare man accused of sending alleged “harassment messages” via Facebook to Clare Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe has offered to apologise to the Dáil deputy, a court has heard. At Killaloe District...
View ArticleScammers posing as Limerick council workers should ‘hang heads in shame’
FINE Gael councillor Adam Teskey has warned that scammers posing as workers operating on behalf of Limerick City and County Council are preying on elderly people in the county. The Adare-Rathkeale...
View ArticleRetiring State solicitor takes swipe at ‘completely unacceptable’ conditions...
THE OUTGOING State Solicitor for Limerick fired a final shot across the bow of court services, saying that conditions in the old Newcastle West courthouse are “completely unacceptable”. Aidan Judge...
View ArticleLimerick fitness instructor avoids jail sentence for drug dealing
A QUALIFIED fitness instructor who previously escaped being jailed after paying out €40,000 in compensation to his victim for an ear bite has once more avoided prison – this time for drug dealing. At...
View ArticleCourt heard accused was in throes of addiction when founds with cannabis haul
A JUDGE heard this week how a Limerick man’s enslavement to cannabis drove him to keep thousands of euros worth of the drug in his possession to feed his habit. Before Judge Carol Anne Coolican was...
View ArticleMan who masturbated on Limerick train says vigilantes ‘are after me’
A 40-YEAR-OLD Clare man sent a lewd image of himself to a female “public figure”, a court has heard. At Ennis District Court, the man has pleaded guilty to sending lewd pictures of himself to three...
View ArticleScrambler scourge still alive and revving in Limerick
LIMERICK TD Maurice Quinlivan has called for action to be taken to address the misuse of scrambler bikes in the Kennedy Park, Glasgow Park, and Garryowen areas of Limerick City. The Sinn Féin TD raised...
View ArticleMan in court over indecent assault of five boys in Limerick and Clare named...
A JUDGE has lifted reporting restrictions to allow an 80-year-old Shannon man who indecently assaulted five boys over a six-year period at locations in Limerick and Clare be named for the first time....
View ArticleLimerick woman loses €10,000 to bank scam
A NEWCASTLE West woman was stripped of a substantial sum by a scammer pretending to be working for her bank. According to Sergeant Ber Leetch, of Henry Street Garda Station, the woman received a call...
View ArticleBurglar arrested in Limerick after being found in terrified woman’s bedroom
HOUSEHOLDERS are being warned to be sure they are not unwittingly making it too easy for burglars to enter homes after a woman was left terrified when a thief was discovered in her bedroom. The...
View ArticleImmersion row lands couple in legal hot water
A HUSBAND has claimed in court that his wife breached sworn undertakings over the use of an immersion switch in the family home. In the case at the Family Law Court, the warring couple each have...
View ArticleCourt hears pregnant woman clung to side of tractor as ex-partner ‘drove off’
A JUDGE has granted a protection order to a woman who told the court she was victim to multiple ‘bite’ assaults by her ex-partner. In a separate case, Judge Gabbett at the Family Law Court has granted...
View Article‘Don’t ask why she doesn’t leave, ask why he isn’t in prison’: Domestic abuse...
AFTER more than a decade in a marriage where she suffered physical, sexual, financial, emotional, and mental abuse, the trigger for Niamh to grab her children and run came when her daughter pleaded to...
View ArticleLimerick Gardaí issue warning over theft of tools
A BALLYNEETY homeowner woke up to find themselves €5,000 worse off after a thief made away with expensive equipment overnight. That’s according to Crime Prevention Officer Sergeant Ber Leetch, who said...
View ArticleGardaí in Limerick investigating tip theft in Annacotty
STAFF in restaurants always appreciate a customer who leaves a tip. But staff at an Annacotty establishment didn’t appreciate the teenage girl who walked up to the counter and made off with a fistful...
View ArticleKiller of Limerick Garda Jerry McCabe found dead in Tyrone home
A MEMBER of the IRA gang who shot dead Limerick Garda Detective Jerry McCabe in Adare 28 years ago was found dead after suffering a suspected heart attack. Garda killer Pearse McAuley (59) was found...
View ArticleCourt to hear Kyle Hayes sentence today
FIVE time All-Ireland winning Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes is to appear before Limerick Circuit Criminal Court this morning to receive a sentence following his conviction on two counts of violent...
View ArticleBREAKING: Limerick hurler given two-year suspended sentence and compensation...
LIMERICK All-Star Hurler Kyle Hayes was handed down an 18-month jail sentence today (Wednesday March 20) for violent disorder inside Icon nightclub on Denmark Street in Limerick City. The sentence...
View ArticleGarda operation targeting sale and supply of drugs in King’s Island area to...
A GARDA operation focusing on the sale and supply of drugs in the King’s Island area of Limerick City is set to return. Operation Feabhsaigh, originally set up in September 2023, had the main focus of...
View ArticleAll-Star Limerick hurler walks free after violent disorder conviction
ALL-STAR Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes walked free from court today (March 20) after receiving fully suspended jail sentences following his convictions for “dangerous” violent disorder inside and outside...
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