Fourteen people remain in Garda custody tonight in connection with the murder last year of 28-year-old Limerick rugby player Shane Geoghegan.
Earlier this evening one of the men arrested was released without charge and a file will be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Yesterday evening another man (in his 20's) was arrested in the Limerick City area in relation to the investigation. He is currently being detained at Roxboro Road Garda Station.
The other six men and seven women were arrested on Tuesday during a series of early morning raids on properties in counties Limerick, Tipperary and Dublin in a preplanned operation involving more than 70 gardaí.
The majority of the arrests were made in Limerick where a total of 12 people were arrested by gardaí in the morning at several addresses on the southside of the city.
Five men and five women were arrested at 7am, while two more people, a man and a woman, were arrested at 11am as part of the Garda operation.
A 41-year-old man was arrested near Bansha in Co Tipperary while a woman in her 20s was arrested in Coolock, Dublin.
A small quantity of drugs, believed to be heroin, as well as drugs paraphernalia, were found during the search in Co Tipperary.
The 14 people arrested range in age from late teens to early 40s.
Some are detained under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, while the others are being held under section 50 of the same Act.
Mr Geoghegan (28) was shot dead on a Limerick housing estate in the early hours of November 9th by gunmen who mistook him for a gangland criminal they were sent to murder.
He was returning home from watching the Ireland-Canada rugby game at a friend's house in the Kilteragh estate, Dooradoyle, just after 1.30am when his killers struck.
The death of Mr Geoghegan caused widespread shock and led to a crackdown on criminal gangs based in Limerick.
