GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating after a pipe bomb was thrown at a home in a Limerick City housing estate this past Monday night.
It is understood the bomb failed to detonate at the front entrance to the home.
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 home at the O’Malley Park estate in the city at around 11:30pm on Monday night (February 10).
The Garda spokesman confirmed that no injuries had been reported as of Tuesday morning resulting from the shock attack, and that officers had already carried out a technical examination of the scene.
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Now, investigating Gardaí have called on anyone who may have been in the area or may have any information on the attack to come forward to assist in the probe.
“Anyone who was in the O’Malley Park estate between 11pm and 11.45pm on Monday, 10th February, 2025, is asked to contact the investigating Gardaí,” the Garda spokesman said.
“Anyone with mobile phone or dashcam footage is also asked to make that footage available.”
Garda sources said they fear people will be seriously maimed or killed if the violent feuding continues.
In a similar recent attack, a pipe bomb was thrown into the garden of a home at Hyde Road in Ballinacurra Weston on February 2. The device exploded but no one was injured.
On January 23, shots were fired at a male on Hyde Road, however he escaped injury.
It is understood that a number of the individuals involved in the feuding have close connections to the Dundon McCarthy crime group, which was responsible for a number of historic murders 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 and people have been targeted in stabbings, drive-by gun attacks, petrol bombings, and pipe bomb attacks as part of the same feud.
Children have been in the immediate vicinity of a number of the violent attacks, and Gardaí warned that a child could easily be injured or worse if the violence continued.
A Cork-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, attached to the Defence Forces, which deals with the recovery of improvised explosive devices, was deployed to Limerick to deal with a number of recent pipe bomb attacks.
