Breakingnews.ie reports that a man has been arrested as part of Garda investigations into the murder of Mark Moloney earlier this month.
Mr. Moloney was shot dead near the Garryowen Stores in a drive-by shooting on April 5th.
Stephen O’Sullivan (18) has already been charged in relation to the murder. The second individual who was arrested this morning is currently being held at Henry Street Garda Station.
Munster take on Saracens in the semifinal of the Heineken European Cup taking place in Coventry.
Formalities begin at 1500 hrs.
An estimated 20,000 people have travelled to Coventry to attend the match from Munster.
1506 Ratuvou scores try for Srarcens, converted by Jackson . (7 points)
1510 Penalty for Munster nets three points
1530 O’Gara scores try for Munster. No conversion (5 points)
1538 Substitution : Saracens Ben Skirving is off, Tom Ryder is on.
1546 Quinlan scores try for Munster, Converted by O’Gara (7 points)
Half Time score Munster 15 Saracens 7
1558 Second half now underway.
1559 Penalty for Saracens nets 3 points
1609 Saracens have made a substitution. Cencus Johnston is on, but who came off is unknown. Lightning in Coventry has affected the feed.
1616 Tipoki (Munster) has been sinbinned, Munster down to 14 men. Saracens secure a penalty.
1617 Penalty for Saracens secures 3 more points
1620 Lloyd (Saracens) is sinbinned Both sides now down to 14.
1622 Johnson (Saracens) is Sinbinned Saracens down to 13 players.
1623 Penalty for Munster nets 3 Points from O’Gara.
1627 Tipoki comes out of sin bin.
1628 Lloyd comes out of sin bin
1634 Jackson’s kick at the post wins Saracens 3 points.
1636 Johnson comes out of Sin Bin.
1638 Munster Substitution. Donocha Ryan is on, Donocha O’Callaghan is off.
Munster win by two points. Full time score Munster 18 Saracens 16
An impromptu convoy of buses, and London black taxis are travelling from London to Coventry ahead of the Heineken Cup semifinal after an electrical fault stopped the scheduled train from making the journey.
According to Live 95FM however, there have been no plans to put the match back by the thousands of fans who have been affected by the rail disruption.
Four weapons have been seized and four people have been taken in for questioning by Gardai in the last 24 hours.
Via NewsWire we have a report of two teenagers who were arrested after reports were received by Gardai that shots were being fired near Westbury Stores in Corbally.
Two teenagers were subsequently arrested and two pellet guns were recovered. Both have since been released and a file is to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
RTE reports that a man has been arrested following the recovery of a handgun during searches in O’Malley Park. A second man was arrested after another firearm was recovered in the city. Both are currently being held at Roxboro and Henry Street Garda Stations.
Six people have been rescued from caves in West Clare overnight. The group had entered caves beneath Slieve Elva near Lisdonvarna yesterday
All six were rescued by 0000 hrs and were taken to Ennis General Hospital where three of the group had to be treated for hypothermia.
Alan O’Flaherty did an excellent job on this, you should be able to read it below.
The Limerick Blogger was unique in that it got two whole pages due to the length of the sample post submitted.
Personally I think it was the best post on the blog by me to date.
Anyway, you will need Macromedia to read this.
A man who was arrested yesterday in relation to the discovery of guns and a quantity of heroin has been released without charge this afternoon.
The two rifles, handgun, ammunition and a quantity of heroin were discovered in a house on St. Ita’s Street in St. Mary’s Park shortly after noon yesterday and the man, who is in his 30s was taken in for questioning.
He has now been released without charge after overnight questioning. I file is to be sent to the director of public prosecutions in relation to the matter.
There are benefits to having stict litter laws. The obvious reason being that it stops illegal dumping on areas of housing estates where children are likely to play. Coming down on illegal dumping also prevents rodent infestation.
Another benefit is curbing unsightly postering of city buildings and streets. Removing such materials from property can be very time consuming and expensive for those who take pride in the look of their business.
But it would seem that City council seem to put more emphasis on making money rather than going after litter louts and illegal dumpers.
People who have unscrupulous landlords, for example, who include refuse collection in rent and then go on to duimp waste illegaly, are being burnt simply because some litter warden found a phone bill in a pile of rubbish and is quick to fire off fine notices and solicitors letters without first investigating these incidents.
The worst case was in 2006 where a litter warden found a woman’s documents in the north east of the country and issued a fine, and subsequently brought her to court. The reason the woman’s documents were found dumped was that her handbag had been snatched on the street and the thief threw it away after making off with her money. The case was subsequently thrown out and the local authority involved was admonished by the presiding judge in the case.
Limerick City Council came upon a new way of making money through the Litter legislation recently. The council sent out surveys to people asking how they disposed of their rubbish. Those that did not respond to surveys were subsequently dragged before the courts.
It would have been quicker for the City Council to access the records of the refuse collection companies and fine those who did not have a subscription to one of these services.
The two people who were featured in this week’s Limerick Chronicle, having appeared before the Litter court for not responding to the city council’s survey, are subscribers to a refuse collection company.
However, because they didn’t respond to City Council’s survey, they were find in total to the tune of €750 as well as being ordered to pay nearly €400 in legal costs owed to the council.
There is a fine line between ocming down hard on those who have disregard for the environment and community, and over-zealousness in executing one’s duty. Engaging in the latter will serve only to alienate people and ferment mistrust in the community for local authority officials.
Limerick City Council made a killing on two families who are hard stretched enough as it is without having to pay massive amounts of money for not replying to some stupid survey, the results of which could have been obtained at a lower cost to the council by going to the various companies and checking who was and who was not disposing of waste properly. The council should know who these companies are given that they issue them with their licence.
The ESB found themselves having to change their plans after a red mist of protest decended upon them this week.
The Electricity supplier had scheduled essential works on their network in the Glin area at the same time as tomorrows match involving Munster taking place in Coventry. The work would have necessitated a power outage.
Following a deluge of complaints from locals, the work has now been rescheduled for earlier in the day, with power hopefully restored in time for the matchf.
The Irish Independent this morning is claiming that a ten-year old child discovered live ammunition, a fully functioning bullet, in the toilets of a primary school in the City this week.
A teacher is said to have caught the boy showing the bullet to his friends and classmates before it was taken from him by the teacher.
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