Gardaí appealed for witnesses on Tuesday after a pipe bomb was thrown at the front entrance of a house in Limerick overnight but failed to detonate.
It’s believed the attack is linked to ongoing feuding between rival groups on the south side of Limerick city.
A Garda spokesperson said the “improvised explosive device” was “thrown at a domestic residence” at the O'Malley Park estate, at around 11:30pm, Monday.
“No injuries have been reported at this time. Gardaí have conducted a technical examination of the scene,” they said.
Gardaí appealed for “anyone who was in the O'Malley Park estate between 11pm and 11.45pm on Monday, or anyone with mobile phone or dash cam footage” to contact investigating gardaí or “make that footage available”.
“Gardaí can be contacted at the Roxboro Road Garda Station on 061 214340, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.
“The investigation is ongoing”.
Garda sources said they fear people will be seriously maimed or killed if the violent feuding continues.
In a similar attack, a pipe bomb was thrown into the garden of a house at Hyde Road, Ballinacurra Weston, on February 2nd last. The device exploded but no one was injured.
On January 23rd last, at around 11pm, shots were fired at a male on Hyde Road, however he escaped injury.
A number of the individuals involved in the feuding have close connections to the Dundon McCarthy crime group which was responsible for the murder of a number of men in the city.
Several people are before the courts charged with serious criminal offences that gardaí suspect are connected with the current feuding.
A number of other homes as well as people have been targeted in stabbings, drive-by gun attacks, petrol bombings and pipe bomb attacks as part of the same feud.
A number of individuals involved have long-running links to criminal gangs involved in the sale and supply of drugs.
A number of children have been in the immediate vicinity of a number of the violent attacks, and gardaí warned that a child or children could easily be injured or worse if the violence continued.
A Cork-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit (EOD), attached to the Defence Forces, which deals with the recovery of IEDs (improvised explosive devices), has been deployed to Limerick to deal with a number of recent pipe bombs.
