Two shootings and a high speed car chase.

It was a busy night in Limerick city last night with reports today of two shooting incidents in which one ended up with a high speed car chase.

Gardai arrested four youths after a car chase following a shooting in Carew Park last night. The emergency response unit pursued the youths after they sped away form the scene of the shooting. The chase lasted an hour before they were apprehended on the cork road.

In a second incident shots were fired at a van on Hyde Road late last night. Nobody was injured in either shooting.