Three Limerick businesses caught out selling alcohol to minors in Garda test
GARDAÍ in County Limerick carried out a test purchase operation to combat the sale of alcohol to minors. The operation was carried out in the Limerick County Community Engagement Area, near Bruff,...
View ArticleLimerick man who stored drugs for sale in Kinder egg shells jailed for four...
A MAN who stored cocaine, heroin, and cannabis in Kinder chocolate egg shells before selling them on the street has been jailed for four years with the final six months suspended. Owen Treacy Jnr (28),...
View ArticleDaughter found 83-year-old father choking on his own phlegm in Limerick hospital
THE DAUGHTER of an 83-year-old man who walked into an ambulance unaided but died in hospital broke down as she told the Coroner’s Court, sitting in Kilmallock, that she found him choking on his own...
View ArticleMan arrested in Hyde Road bomb probe
GARDAÍ attached to the Crime Office at Roxboro Road Garda Station have today (Tuesday) arrested a man in connection with ongoing investigations into two incidents of explosions which occurred on Hyde...
View ArticleAppeal to be heard over objection to renewal of pub license in Limerick City
A FORMER convicted shebeen operator from Limerick, who enlisted one of Scotland Yard’s “most wanted” killers to appear as a witness for him in a court case objecting to his local publican renewing his...
View ArticleMayor says Limerick’s water infrastructure is ‘woefully inadequate’
LIMERICK’S water infrastructure is “woefully inadequate”, Mayor John Moran told Council members. Mayor Moran said at the April full monthly meeting of Limerick City and County Council that the critical...
View ArticleKnown criminals used vulnerable woman to steal for them
CRIMINAL elements well known to Gardai are using vulnerable people to do their thieving for them, a judge sitting in a Limerick court was told. A 23-year-old Eastern European woman was pleading guilty...
View ArticleLimerick the third worst affected city in Ireland for car thefts
THE Central Statistics Office (CSO) 2024 statistics has revealed that 502 motor theft and related offences were reported in Limerick last year, an 11 per cent decrease on the 564 incidents from the...
View ArticleMan arrested in Limerick in connection with organised crime investigation
GARDAÍ in Limerick have arrested a man in connection with an ongoing organised organised crime investigation. Gardaí this Thursday morning confirmed that the man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on...
View ArticleTruck driver drove through stop-sign junction seriously injuring rugby star’s...
A TRUCK driver who drove through a stop-sign junction, seriously injuring the father of Ireland, Munster, and Lions rugby Conor Murray, was previously convicted of drink driving, hit and run, and...
View ArticleChild sex abuse survivors take fight to Dáil
A LIMERICK woman who was sexually abused by her uncle when she was a child has taken her fight to the Dáil to have sex offenders tagged and monitored after release from jail. Sonia Stokes waived her...
View ArticleMan who helped smuggle €21m cocaine haul through Ireland facing 10 years in jail
A MAN who helped a Brazilian drug cartel smuggle one of the biggest cocaine hauls in Irish history through the country is facing a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison, a court heard. Nikola Penchev...
View ArticleGardaí and army investigate car fire, suspect device, and shots fired in...
GARDAÍ investigating a suspected firebombing of a car in Limerick this Sunday morning (April 13) discovered a suspect explosive device near the vehicle and were informed by residents of a nearby house...
View ArticlePaedophile ex-solider to be sentenced after convictions for sex assaults on...
TWO Limerick women who were sexually abused when they were children by a former member of the Defence Forces said they came forward to Gardaí so that no other child would potentially be harmed by the...
View ArticleMan charged in connection with investigation into burglaries by organised...
A MAN who was arrested by Gardaí in Limerick in connection with ongoing investigations into an organised crime group (OCG) has been charged in relation to a number of burglaries and other offences....
View ArticleCouple face jail unless they remove caravan from Limerick roundabout
A JUDGE has warned a couple they will be jailed unless they remove their live-in caravan from a roundabout in Limerick. Limerick City and County Council offered an apartment to the couple, Teresa and...
View ArticleResidents evacuated from homes in Limerick as second explosive device linked...
RESIDENTS in the Prospect area of Limerick City were evacuated from their homes this Tuesday morning (April 15) as an army bomb disposal unit made safe a second improvised explosive device in the city...
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Gardaí seize hundreds of thousands of euro in cash, drugs, cars, and...
GARDAÍ this Tuesday (April 15) seized over €235,000 worth of suspected crime assets in a massive planned search operation targeting an escalating violent feud in Limerick. The swoop involved more than...
View ArticleShoplifting on the rise in Limerick, according to new figures
SHOPLIFTING has increased almost 200 fold in Limerick in the last two decades, according to official figures from the Central Statistics Office. The number of cases has jumped from 741 in 2003 to 2,79...
View ArticleLimerick man under prison lockdown for own safety faces lengthy drug dealing...
A LIMERICK man facing sentencing for a string of drug dealing offences is being kept under strict 23-hour lockdown in prison for his own safety, a court has heard. Ian Hopkins (33), of Fedamore, County...
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