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Defiant Natasha demands justice for attack victims
DEFIANT Limerick woman Natasha O’Brien and her supporters took their campaign for legal reforms for victims of crime to the steps of Limerick Circuit Criminal Court this Wednesday (June 26). Ms O’Brien...
View ArticleE-biker arrested after seizure of loaded firearm in Limerick City
AN ELECTRIC bicycle rider was arrested in the King’s Island area of Limerick City in the early hours of this Friday morning after local Gardaí seized a loaded firearm the rider had been concealing in...
View ArticleGarda charged with disclosing Garda PULSE data
A GARDA has appeared in court charged with the unauthorised disclosure of Garda PULSE personal data relating to 14 individuals to a co-accused charged with a drug trafficking offence. At Ennis District...
View ArticleMan refused bail on charge of carrying loaded gun while riding scrambler...
A MAN was charged in court today (Sunday, June 30) with carrying a loaded semi-automatic gun, as well as ammunition, as he rode an electric scrambler bike through Limerick City. Craig O’Donnell (27),...
View ArticleNatasha O’Brien welcomes decision by DPP to appeal attacker’s suspended sentence
NATASHA O’Brien, a victim of a violent attack at the hands of Irish solider Cathal Crotty, told the Limerick Post evening that she was buoyed by the news that the DPP is to appeal her attacker’s...
View ArticleTD calls for more Community Gardaí in Limerick
SINN Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan has called for an increase in the number of Community Gardaí in Limerick. Deputy Quinlivan criticised Fine Gael for what he termed “the slashing of Garda numbers in...
View ArticleFormer Limerick teacher who falsely alleged colleague was a child abuser...
A SECONDARY school teacher who sent an anonymous letter falsely alleging that a male teaching colleague at a school in Limerick was a child abuser has escaped jail. At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec...
View ArticleLimerick Prison records up to 90 prisoner-on-prisoner attacks last year
THERE were as many as 90 prisoner-on-prisoner attacks in Limerick Prison last year. That’s according to figures published this week in the Irish Mirror. The numbers leave the Limerick prison complex a...
View ArticleChampion Limerick boxer’s killer jailed for 22 years
THE mother of murdered Limerick national champion boxer Kevin Sheehy has called on Gardaí to renew efforts to bring two people who are suspected of aiding and abetting her son’s killer to justice....
View ArticleLimerick councillor calls for action on gender-based violence
LABOUR Party councillor Elena Secas wants bold, decisive action to overhaul the Irish judicial system and provide real support for victims of gender-based violence. Cllr Secas called for government...
View Article‘Decent, compassionate, and fair’: Legal profession defend retired Limerick...
MEMBERS of the legal profession defended and led tributes to long-serving Limerick Circuit Criminal Court judge Tom O’Donnell, who retired in controversy last week. Judge O’Donnell, whose career...
View ArticleCourt hears protesters caused Shannon Airport to close for more than 30 minutes
SHANNON Airport had to be closed for 35 minutes to air traffic as a result of an alleged incursion into the runway area by three anti-war activists, a court has heard. Detective Sergeant Kevin O’Hagan...
View ArticleShannon Foynes Port incurs €357,008 legal costs from CEO’s successful High...
THE Shannon Foynes Port Company last year incurred legal costs of €357,008 arising from a successful High Court action its CEO, Pat Keating, took against the port firm over unpaid bonuses. In 2022, the...
View ArticleMan jailed for four years after assaulting and robbing students in Limerick City
A SERIAL criminal offender was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to robbing two female students, violently assaulting one of them, in Limerick City. One of the woman wrote in a victim impact...
View ArticleGardaí investigating after threatening letter sent to home of convicted...
GARDAÍ are investigating after a letter was posted to the family home of convicted Irish soldier Cathal Crotty warning him to leave his native County Clare or face the threat of being kidnapped and...
View ArticleLimerick criminal barristers join national picket in protest over fair pay
LEGAL eagles in Limerick will be joining their colleagues across the country this morning (Tuesday July 9) in a series of nationwide protests to call for an “independent, meaningful, time-limited, and...
View ArticleLimerick Gardaí make significant drugs seizure following city centre search
GARDAÍ in Limerick made a significant drugs seizure this past week after stopping and searching a man in the city centre. As part of ongoing investigations into the sale and supply of controlled drugs...
View ArticleGarda car rammed in Kilmallock following car theft in Croom
A GARDA car was damaged in a County Limerick town in an incident of dangerous driving. Gardaí in Kilmallock were investigating the theft of two cars from the Croom area this past Wednesday morning...
View ArticleGardaí investigating daylight assault in Limerick City
GARDAÍ are investigating a daytime assault on a man in Limerick City. A spokesman for An Garda Síochána said they received a report of an assault that occurred at approximately 1.15pm this past...
View ArticleAttacker loses part of tongue in sex assault in Limerick
A VICTIM of an aggravated sexual assault bit off part of her attacker’s tongue during the ordeal, the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has heard. Gerard Ward (48), with an address at Galtee Drive,...
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