The Limerick Blogger: latest Limerick news and Limerick events

Two teenagers, a man in his 20s and a man in his 40s have been arrested after the discovery of guns and amunition in a house in Moyross.

The raid took place this morning as part of an investigation into organised crime in Moyross.

UPDATE: Live 95fm reports that two rifles and two sawn off shotguns as well as a quantity of amunition have been recovered in the raid. h/t also to LivinDaGhetto for info

UPDATE: More info from RTE news. The age range of the people in custody is 18 to 41 years old. They are being held in various Garda stations around the city under Section 30 of the Offences against the state Act.

Two men appeared before Limerick District Court yesterday, charged with the murder of Darren Coughlan, at the Old Cracloe Road in November of last year.

Richard Treacy, with an address at St. Munchin’s Street, St. Mary’s Park and Shane Kelly of Oliver Plunkett Street, St. Mary’s Park were arrested yesterday morning by Gardai on the direction of the DPP.

The court was told that neither gave a response when arrested.

Solicitors for both men, requested that they be remanded in custody at Limerick Prison for their own protection. Judge Tom O’Donnell agreed to this and remanded them in custody to appear again before the court next week.

See also:

Joining the Dots – Alive in Limerick

Sheila Murray, the mother of Millie and Gavin Murray-McNamara has been speaking to Live 95FM this morning.

The two children were seriously injured when the car they were sitting in was set alight outside the house of their mother’s friend on September 10th.

The full interview : Part 1 Part 2

See also details of the Gavin and Millie fundraising Trust Fund account

UPDATE: Some people having trouble listening to the audio files. here is a suggestion. Right click over the links and select “save link as” from the menu. this should allow you to download the files. they are in WAV format and are roughly 10 megabytes each. If you are using internet Explorer this is down as “save target as” on the menu.

Plans are afoot to hold the Late Late Show in Limerick City during the comming season of the show.

The Limerick Leader revealed in it’s City Edition that no date or venue have been released yet, however it is more or less a certainty that the show will go ahead.

This will be the first time the show, which has run on RTE for almost half a century, will be broadcast from a location in Ireland other than Dublin.

The Late Late Show has breviously broadcast twice from New York.

After much anticipation, NewsTalk is now receivable in Limerick. The former dublin local station began it’s first live nationwide broadcast with the Breakfast Show.

Listen to the first 20 minutes of Nationwide NewsTalk by clicking here – Windows Media Player required

A man has received a three month prison sentence for an attack on a fire engine in June of this year.

Darragh Quinlivan, (23) from Crecora Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, pleaded guilty to smashing the window of the fire engine on June 5th when it attended to a call in the area.

The court had previously heard from Inspector Seamus Gallagher, who told the court that the windscreen of the engine was smashed with a rock by the accused , who was standing amongst a crowd at 0330 hrs on that date. Over €400 worth of damage was caused to the fire engine.

Handing down the sentence, Judge Tom O’Donnell described it as “an appauling performance.”

Renegade republicans are not the only lunatic element living amongst us here in Limerick. Another ugly disgusting ideology raised its evil head this week as students of the University of Limerick were greeted by a site which would turn the stomoch of any normal human being.

A slogan used used by the Nazis at the forced labour camp and human slaughterhouse that was Auchwitz was daubed accross a piece of art at the entrance of the University and greeted students as they returned for the upcoming academic year.

Arbeit macht frei, or in English “Work will make you free” is synonymous with the concentration camp, and was daubed in large red letters on a sculpture known as “The Chessboard”.

The grafiti was promptly removed by the University’s buildings department.

ULSU president John Ó Donnabháin condemned the grafiti and hoped that not too many people were offended by what he described as a sick joke.

A spokesperson for the University is quoted in the City Edition of the Limerick Leader as saying that this was simply an act of criminal damage. If it were students who did this as a prank, then they could face being booted out of the college. Personally I would like to see them booted out of Limerick too, but then that is just me.

The County edition of the Limerick Leader had this picture of a farmer who grew a massive 211 pound head of cabbage.

Growing the massive vegatable wasn’t the problem, getting people to eat it was.

John Houlahan, a retired plasterer, grew the cabbage from seeds he bought in Spain. He told the paper that people were too lazy to cook and that is why they were not eating cabbage anymore.

“It is alot easier for people to go to the fridge and pull out a dinner from the freezer.” he told the paper. “It is a fright to see farmers going into the shop to buy vegetables.”

Another problem he with growing cabbages is catepillers. “I have done everything bar shooting the caterpillers. If anyone knows how I can get rid of them could they please let me know.”

The cabbage has a diameter of 2 feet