Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

The evidence provided by the officials to whom I refer particularly related to the difficulty of encouraging jurors to participate in trials. The top official in Limerick indicated that there is "a tacit understanding that there is no point in holding gangland murder trials in Limerick". That view was clearly underlined a number of years ago when, in the context of the murder of Kieran Keane-----