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Renegade republicans are not the only lunatic element living amongst us here in Limerick. Another ugly disgusting ideology raised its evil head this week as students of the University of Limerick were greeted by a site which would turn the stomoch of any normal human being.

A slogan used used by the Nazis at the forced labour camp and human slaughterhouse that was Auchwitz was daubed accross a piece of art at the entrance of the University and greeted students as they returned for the upcoming academic year.

Arbeit macht frei, or in English “Work will make you free” is synonymous with the concentration camp, and was daubed in large red letters on a sculpture known as “The Chessboard”.

The grafiti was promptly removed by the University’s buildings department.

ULSU president John Ó Donnabháin condemned the grafiti and hoped that not too many people were offended by what he described as a sick joke.

A spokesperson for the University is quoted in the City Edition of the Limerick Leader as saying that this was simply an act of criminal damage. If it were students who did this as a prank, then they could face being booted out of the college. Personally I would like to see them booted out of Limerick too, but then that is just me.

The County edition of the Limerick Leader had this picture of a farmer who grew a massive 211 pound head of cabbage.

Growing the massive vegatable wasn’t the problem, getting people to eat it was.

John Houlahan, a retired plasterer, grew the cabbage from seeds he bought in Spain. He told the paper that people were too lazy to cook and that is why they were not eating cabbage anymore.

“It is alot easier for people to go to the fridge and pull out a dinner from the freezer.” he told the paper. “It is a fright to see farmers going into the shop to buy vegetables.”

Another problem he with growing cabbages is catepillers. “I have done everything bar shooting the caterpillers. If anyone knows how I can get rid of them could they please let me know.”

The cabbage has a diameter of 2 feet

Its pretty easy to get lost in O’Malley park, esecially if you are not from the area.

Two gunmen found this out the hard way when they went looking for an individual and could not find them.

The two men, armed with handguns entered a house in the estate at 1845 hrs yesterday and confronted an occupant in the house. They asked for a person by name and the occupant told them that he was not in the house.

The two men went to another house and did the same thing, and getting the same result, asking for a person by name and being told that they were not there.

They then went back to the first house and fired three shots. Two shots went into the house but the person who was there escaped injury.

Meanwhile, a woman returned home from work discovered that her windows had been shot at.

The shooting at this house occoured between 0900 and 1730 hrs while the woman was at work. Gardai believe that either a shotgun or a pellet gun was used in this incident.

It is not known whether these shootings are related to “the feud.”

A man who was convicted of making nuisance phone calls to solicitor Ted McCarthy and his mother has been fined €1,200 and given a suspended sentence.

Christopher Carroll (48) with an address at Hyde Road, Prospect in Limerick received the sentence Judge Leo Malone.

The court had previously been told that the threatening and abusive calls were made in the early hours of May 25th. Mr. McCarthy’s elderly mother got an earful too after she received some calls on the same date.

Defence solicitor David Brophy had told the court that the calls were made not long after Carroll had received a bill from Mr. McCarthy in relation to another legal matter. He also told the court that his client was a self-confessed alcoholic and had “broken out” in the days leading up to the incident.

“This was drunken talk, and my client had no influence over that family at all” Mr. Brophy told the court.

Judge Malone fined Carroll €1,200 for the calls made to Mr McCarthy and gave him a suspended sentence of four months for the calls to his mother.

Join us again when David Brophy sends out his bill…