A 30 year old man has appeared at Listowel District Court and has been charged with the double murders of Michael (60) and Dennis Hanrahan (27) last Thursday.
Thomas Barrett of Cleandries, Causeway, Co Kerry replied “no” to each of the charges as they were read out in court.
He was remanded into custody at Cork Prison and will be before the court again on Wednesday.
Our favorite Kerry based stormfronter has been up to his old tricks again. From Google search:
Black cabs in Limerick – Stormfront White Nationalist Community
Thats a great one 061 414141 ask for a cab wreck their heads.Pretend you cant speak english and pretend you cant understand what they are on about wreck …
www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=5306722 – 1 hour ago
While stormfront.org is no longer cached by google, if you know exactly what you are looking for, you can find it in snippet size bits in the search index. the general gist of the message is calling for fellow racists to call up Set Price Taxis and basically disrupt their lawful business, either by clogging up their lines with nuisance calls, or sending drivers on wild goose chases.
The problem they have is that the company is an equal opportunities employer. It does not discriminate based on colour of skin, which our armchair racist friends do not like.
While the above message was promptly removed by Stormfront Ireland’s Canadian based moderator, the person who posted the initial message returned to post the company’s phone number.
So if there is anyone from Set Price reading this, be wide to these people.
Regeneration will not be successful unless there is internment. The gardai know who is responsible for these feud-related crimes, the dogs in the street know who is responsible. Why not lock them up and stop them carrying out these random acts of violence?
-Fr. Joe Young, Former Curate of Southill
Father Joe Young, is the latest in an ever growing list of people calling for the internment of suspected criminal gang member in Limerick.
While locking up people without the inconvenience of a trial might be tempting, it can only in one result, disaster.
So what exactly is internment? Many who read this site may be familiar with, or have memories of suspected IRA members being interned by the British Government in the 1970s and 1980s. This was done in an effort to prevent them from blowing stuff up, but it ended up polarising the nationalist communities and internees were celebrated as heroes to the cause.
Internment is the imprisoning of individuals without a trial, for an indeterminate length of time.
The problem I would have with it would be that because a system of internment is being administered by human beings, they are, sooner or later, going to get it wrong, resulting in some innocent sod being dragged off the street and thrown into a cell for no particular reason.
In Limerick in particular, organised crime is centered around families. This poses the risk of someone being thrown into custody simply for being related to a suspected criminal. While you can choose your friends in this life, you cannot choose your family.
It is truly shocking that a man of the cloth, a Catholic priest who should be old enough to remember the internment of people in Northern Ireland, should be supportive of such measures.
What should be done, is the expansion of the role of the Special Criminal Court. While the SCC is far from perfect, it is the lesser of too evils when compared to internment
Also, for drugs and gun related crimes, judges need to be forced to observe manditory sentencing. Many judges are opposed to mandatory sentencing as it takes away some of their powers, but if the courts do not reflect the opinion of the law abiding people in society, then the legal system is not going to function properly or earn any respect.
The presence of the armed Emergency Response Unit failed to prevent a gun attack in St. Mary’s Park over the weekend.
A house in the estate had it’s front door shot at on Saturday night. While the house was occupied at the time, there were no injuries.
According to today’s Limerick Leader newspaper, Gardai believe the attack was feud-related.
A body found in the Oranmore area of Galway over the weekend has been identified as missing University of Limerick student Michael Hughes. He was originally from County Longford.
The 20 year old was last seen at 0145 hrs on 20th February in Ayre Square in Galway, having been seen earlier that day socialising at the bar at NUI Galway.
Gardai confirmed his identity yesterday.
Two shotguns are being examined as part of the double murder investigation now under way at Moyvane, close to the Kerry/Limerick border.
Michael (60) and Dennis Hanrahan were found dead on Thursday morning in the bedroom of their house. Dennis Hanrahan was found in his own bed and his father was found on the floor of his son’s bedroom.
A legally held firearm belonging to the Hanrahan household was found, but it is not believed to be the weapon used in the murder.
A second gun is also being examined, however no information is being released as to where this gun was found or how significant it is in relation to the investigation.
Last night, a 30 year old man was arrested after he presented himself to Gardai. He is understood to be a neighbour of the two dead men. He is not related to them.
Michael Hanrahan was an active member of his community, organising numerous events for the Fine Gael party, as well as contributing to community notice sections of both the Limerick Leader and Kerryman newspapers.
Patrick and John Collison will be guests on the Late Late Show this evening on RTE 1.
The two Limerick teenagers hit the headlines this week after a company they started, auctomatic, was acquired by Live Media, of Canada for a reported €3.2m
If you miss the show tonight, it is repeated again after Oireactas Report on Monday night, and will be hopefully av available on RTE’s website www.rte.ie.
Update: Link to video
The bodies of a father and son, aged 54 and 27 respectively, have been found in a house in the Moybane area of County Kerry, close to the Limerick Border.
The mens bodies were discovered this morning, and Gardai have now sealed off the area for technical examination.
The state pathologists office has been notified.
If you had told me twelve months ago I would be writing the above headline, I would have laughed at you. Nonetheless, here I am writing it.
Patrick Collison, who took ownership of limerickblogger.org earlier this month, along with his brother John, have become wealthy men following the acquisition of their start up venture Auctomatic by Canadian company, Live Current Media, for a reported €3m.
Auctomatic was started in June of 2007, and the company offers eBay account management services online.
More can be found here
A thirty year old inmate of Limerick Prison has died after he was found unconscious in his cell.
The alarm was raised by his cellmate at 2100 hrs and he was russhed to Limerick Regional Hospital where he died.
The man was serving a 10 month prison term for road traffic offences.
Foul play is not suspected in the man’s death.
The name of the dead man is yet to be released.
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