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Two Dublin men have been before the District Court this afternoon charged with the possession of a laptop bag containing two Argos catalogues for the purpose of deception in Limerick City yesterday.

Garry Canning, with an address at the South Circular Road, Dublin and William McDonnah from Finglas were told to stay out of Limerick City and to sign on at a Garda station in Dublin every day until their case comes before Limerick District Court again.

Our drug-dealing neighbours will be present at the meeting and we fear a backlash if we express our fears and opinions.

Please help us,

The short note delivered to John Fitzgerald on behalf of local residents in Southill who were too afraid to attend a public meeting being held concerning the regeneration of the area.

250 people did attend the meeting however, and the large attendance meant that it had to be moved from the local community hall to the parish church.

From the indo.

The time left to enter the Jesse Malin competition is running out. you have until Midnight tonight to enter.

Click here to find out how to enter.

How the winner will be picked

At midnight, the emails received will each be assigned a number, the first email with the correct answer will be numbered 1, the second will be number 2 and so on.

We will use an online random number selector to pick three numbers between 1 and the number of correct answers.

example, if we receive 12 correct answers, we will pick three random numbers between 1 and 12.

Here is the website we will be using to pick the three winners.
http://www.agribiz.com/merchdiz/RandomGenerator.htm

The competition is now closed, there were nine (9) entries.

they were:

1. John H. – Location not specified
2. Sean – Dooradoyle
3. Frank – City Centre
4. Alan – Limerick
5. John D. – United States
6. Barry – Galway
7. Ron – Limerick City
8. Kevin – Location not specified
9. Jennifer – Castletroy.

I will now pick three numbers using the above page between 1 and 9.

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Congratulations to the winners. You will receive an e-mail in the next 30 minutes.

On New Year’s Eve, we wrote a feature on Darragh Ryan, who travelled to Spain to undergo revolutionary surgury which is hoped will help him walk.

Darragh has Cerebral Palsy and epilepsy, and as a result, has been confined to a wheelchair as a result.

But thanks to the microsurgury he received in 2006, it is looking like the rugby nut will be walking onto the pitch very soon.

The Limerick Leader did a feature on Darragh this week, which can be read below.

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Here is how things stand on the whole vote your county onto the Monopoly board thing. Remember you can vote once a day.

#1 1716 Donegal
#2 1598 Leitrim
#3 1543 Roscommon
#4 1326 Waterford
#5 721 Cork
#6 667 Limerick
#7 661 Meath
#8 608 Wexford
#9 602 Sligo
#10 572 Kilkenny

Go here to vote for Limerick

It is the first time the deadly substance has been discovered in the country, and Limerick Prison is the place where a trace of it was discovered.

It is believed that the substance was found when the FBI in the United States tipped off Gardai about a foreign national who was on his way to off someone in Munster.

It is believed that ricin was going to be the chosen method of execution for the man’s target. However he was arrested before he could reach his goal.

The amount of ricin found was too small to be fatal however.

Father of three shot in brutal ambush killing – Limerick Leader (City Edition)
Campion murder may have been gang related – Irish Examiner
Garda lockdown at estates after eight gangland feud murder – Irish Examiner
Limerick Criminal is killed in ambush on motorbike – Irish Times
Criminal killed in bike ambush – Irish Independent
Pensioners were strolling past as gunman opened fire from phonebox – Irish Independent

And now for the tabloids.

Daily Star

The Daily Irish Mail

That is Gary Campion’s picture on the left.

The Sun

The Herald concentrated more on the shooting of the 16 year old boy last night. A quick glance at the headline would make you think he was shot dead.

A 16-year old youth has been injured in a shooting incident in Moyross.

RTE radio reports that the boy was taken to the Mid-Western regional hospital with pellet wounds he received in the gun attack.

His injuries are however, not believed to be life threatening.

It is not known whether or not the shooting is related to yesterday morning’s fatal gun attack which left Noel Campion dead.

We have received no entries to this competition. Therefore I will be extending the competition until midnight on Friday.

If you are interested in winning a free CD, we have three of them to give away, then click the link at the top of the page just below the google adverts to find out how to win them.

Spin Southwest, the new regional radio station which will broadcast from Limerick, have appointed a Programme Director.

It is reported in this week’s LimerickPost that Nessa McGann, former ly of student station Wired FM, was named as the person who will fill the position. More managerial appointments are promised in the not-too-distant future.

The station is due to begin broadcasting in early July from the Landmark offices building on the Raheen Roundabout