Gardai are searching for two individuals after a patrol car was rammed when they were called to an attempted burglary of a pub in County Tipperary.
Gardai began the chase of a Ford Focus at approximately 0500 hrs this morning at the town of Bansha. after they were called to the scene of the attempted burglary Their car was rammed twice in Tipperary town before the thieves made their escape in the direction of Limerick City.
Sunday will mark the 18th Birthday of missing Southill teenager, Richard (Happy) Kelly. His mother Mary has issued a fresh apeal for information which will help finding him.
For a full description on Mr Kelly, I would refer you to my initial post on his disappearance
UPDATE: on earlier post by Grumpy
Gardai are treating as suspicious the disovery of a body by the river Shannon near the Condell Road. As reported earlier, the body was found near the walkway beneath the Shannon bridge.
The body of the man, believed to be in his 20s was discovered at 2300 hrs last night and had head injuries.
The state pathologist is due to carry out a post-mortem later today on the body.
The dead man has not yet been named.
UPDATE: Gardai are investigating reports that two men were seen running from the scene where Mr. Ryan’s body was found.
UPDATE: Live 95 FM reported earlier today that three men were helping Gardai with their enquiries in relation to this murder
From RTE News at One
Limerick is to be twinned with the polish city of Starogard Gdanski, in a ceremony due to take place next weekend.
A delegation from Limerick will be in attendance at representing bodies including Limerick City Council, The Limerick Enterprise Board, West Limerick REsources Ltd. Ballyhoura Development Ltd, FAS employees and members of the Irish-Polish Cultural and Business Association.
The official signing of the twinning agreement will be signed on June 1.
Publicans around the city took the opportunity to stick an extra ten cent on the price of a pint at a time when people were too busy celebrating Munster’s win to notice. But not everyone missed it. The Limerick Leader claims that it received numerous calls from readers.
“It seems a bit convenient that the prices went up just before one of the biggest sporting occasions in Limerick’s history.” one caller to the paper is reported as saying.
However publicans claim that the increase of the price at the same time as the Heineken Cup Final was mere coincidence. They claim that the brewers increased their prices by 4 cent and when VAT is taken into concideration, it was necessary for publicans to increase their prices by 10 cent. One publican who called the paper claimed that most pubs will have increased their prices to meet the price increase by the brewers.
I swear if this man didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all. After throwing in the towel as owner of Radio Limerick One after numerous ComReg raids on the station, The misfortune continues for Gerrard Madden.
His plans to build a five storey development have been dashed after planning permission was rejected by An Bord Planeala.
The five story hotel and retail development, proposed to be located where a car park now stands, was rejected originally by Limerick City Council on traffic, archeological, natural light, and architectural grounds.
The effect that the development would have on St. Michael’s church and other protected structures in the area was one of the reasons given for the Council’s refusal to give planning permission. However the developers say that the Church has had extensions and other modifications added to it and was of no real historical importance.
An apeal to An Bord Planeala was rejected as the site was “deep within a zone of archeological interest” The Board’s inspector Keith Sargient also noted that that on further enquiries it turned out that the developer had chosen not to carry out an archeological investigation on the site in question.
Here’s what’s going on around the local blogs for today:
Parts of the area around the Shannon bridge are sealed off this morning after a body was found in the area last night. Initial reports are suggesting that an incident of some description occured in the area last night sometime between 10pm and midnight. There is a Garda presence at the scene on the Fernbank side of the bridge(ie, near the boat club) on the underside of the bridge where the footpath is which generally is a sign that something major has occured. The body is reported to be that of a male in his mid twenties, no name has yet been released but further details will no doubt follow. The state pathologist has been notified.
Another story about shady Clare folk.
Interesting story in the Limerick Post. A little inaccurate, but interesting nonetheless.
THE new .eu domain name for European firms is up and running but those not quick off the mark to register themselves are now being asked to hand over 2,100 to cybersquatters just to get their own names back.
Businesses in Limerick are being forewarned to ignore a letter already being issued to Ennis firms and not to pay up.
E-business specialist Seanie Ryan advises that companies who have already secured the .ie and/or .com domain names won’t be affected by the lack of a .eu domain but if it has not already been registered by a cybersquatter, they should register themselves now.
The signature on the letter, already received by The Belleek Shop in Ennis, is that of an Irish woman. She claims to represent a “Clare-basedâ€? company called Domainguard Ireland, and openly admits to snapping up “thousandsâ€? of Irish internet domain names with the new .eu ending.
A company calling itself DomainGuard is offering companies in the Mid-West region .eu domain names at over the top prices.
An individual has snapped up “thousands” of unregistered .eu domain names for companies and is offering to sell them to those companies for as much as €2,100 a pop. The individual sends a letter to the company claiming that it has purchased the names in an effort to safeguard them from cybersquatters, and then offers to the company. The letter also claims that other companies are charging twice this.
The letter is then signed by a woman claiming to be from Ennis.
Firstly, it is a little odd that a company at the forefront of e-commerce would not even have a domain name of its own, or a website. A google for DomainGuard revealed that there is a German company of that name. However it does list Ireland as one of the countries in which it deals in.
It gets better. The Domain name BELLEEKSHOP.EU is registered to a man. A Mr. Gerard Quinn, from Mahonburg in Inch, Kilmalley, County Clare. the contact e-mail address is even better, It belongs to a Mr. Bryan Quinn, and is a two year old hotmail address.
The domain name was registered in April of 2006 through a domain registrar in Luxemburg.
This “company”, according to the Post, has also a non-existant VAT number printed on the letter being sent to its targets.
From the article:
We did discover however that Domainguard Ireland is not a registered company, and the VAT number cited on the invoice does not exist.
To register a .eu domain name costs only €10 according to the paper, and the process of removing a cybersquatter through the EURid.eu redress process costs €1,900, a whole €200 less than what this “company” is charging.
While it is not illegal for someone to buy up a domain name of a company, they may be breaking the law should they decide to use that name.
Here is another lie in the letter, remember now, the domain name was registered through a Luxemburg company
The Domainguard Ireland letter concedes that it is possible to take court action through EURid.eu’s ADR process at the Czech Republic court. But the letter claims that this court’s fee is 4,000 euro – double what the EURid.eu says it is.
As the person who is cybersquatting these domain names has left their address in the public domain, through their registrar, then I see no problem in publishing it here.
There are some conflicting reports in the media regarding the shooting incident which took place in cork City yesterday. The Evening Herald claimed that the shooting was carried out by a gang which had connection to Limerick criminals, however many of the other newspapers stated that the shooting was related to a Clare based gang. If it is a Clare based gang, could the group lead by our friend Mr. Big be involved?
An investigator circles the pockmarks on the wall where a group of teenagers were shot at in Cork. Picture : Irish Times.
It is now understood that the gang from Clare, or Limerick depending on which paper you read, carried out the attack to intimidate members of a Cork based gang. The two gangs have been involved in a feud for the past few weeks.
This shooting was followed by a second gun attack in Knocknaheeney in Cork City where a 17 year old was injured after he answered the door to a gunman.
UPDATE: It looks as though Independent Media is sticking to it’s claim that the gang come from Limerick.
GARDAI are stepping up surveillance on criminal gangs amid fears of reprisals after the shooting of a 14-year-old boy, writes Ralph Riegel.
Officers said it was a miracle the teenager wasn’t killed when a lone gunman opened fire on a house in Blackpool at lunchtime on Tuesday. The man ran up to the house on Farren Road off Gerald Griffith Street and fired a shotgun at the front door from some 25 metres away.
A group of teens were standing near the doorway and, as one of them tried to get out of the way, he was hit by the pellet spray.
The teen suffered multiple wounds, including pellet strikes. However, the injuries were largely superficial and he is expected to make a full recovery.
The shooting is believed to be linked to a feud between two gangs, one based in Cork and the other in Limerick.
Tensions have mounted between the two gangs – which revolve around three extended families in Cork city, North Cork, Limerick and Clare – after a violent row earlier this year.
Senior gardai admitted they were concerned over the possibility of revenge attacks.
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