Dawn raids target Limerick crime gangs
Up to 100 garda officers launched a wave of dawn raids across Limerick today in a planned crackdown on the city’s feuding gangs.
As many as 40 homes, shops and other premises believed to be linked to two notorious organised criminal factions have been targeted.
The ongoing operation follows a vow earlier this week by Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy that the State will prevail in a war with the murderous gangsters.
Dozens of raids began at first light and focused on homes and businesses suspected of being connected to the McCarthy-Dundon and Keane-Collopy gangs.
Uniformed officers, detectives, the Garda Regional Response Unit and Garda Air Support Unit are involved in the searches, under the orders of Assistant Commissioner Kevin Ludlow.
They are looking for any evidence of organised criminality, including drugs, guns, documents, computers and phones.
Gardaí have come under increasing pressure to face down the troubled city’s gangs after the recent killings of Roy Collins and Shane Geoghegan.
At the Garda Representative Association annual conference this week, Commissioner Murphy revealed there were plans to launch a new series of “in your face” initiatives to tackle murdering thugs in Limerick.
