Two brothers have been jailed for making threats to kill three members of the same family in Limerick.
Wayne Dundon was jailed for six years and his brother John was jailed for five-and-a-half years for making threats to members of the Collins family.
John Dundon, 29, with an address at Hyde Road in Limerick, was convicted of threatening to kill April Collins, 24, on the weekend of 3-4 April, 2011.
His older brother Wayne Dundon, 33, of Lenihan Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, was convicted of threatening Alice Collins that he would kill or cause serious harm to her sons Gareth Collins and Jimmy Collins.
At the Central Criminal Court today, Mr Justice Paul Butler said that in Wayne Dundon's case the threat was more serious because it involved a threat to two offspring.
The Dundons were convicted last month, after a ten-day trial, of making the threats.
During the trial, the court heard that mother-of-three April Collins was in a relationship with Gerard Dundon, a brother of the accused men, for eight years until late 2010.
There was evidence that the catalyst for the threats was an attack on the home of Alice Collins by four women, including John Dundon's wife Ciara, on the evening of 30 September 2010.
Convicting the brothers last month Justice Butler said the court had been impressed by the "entirely credible and convincing" evidence of Alice Collins and was satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Wayne Dundon had intimidated and made threats against her.
He said that, with regard to the three counts against Wayne Dundon, the court found the evidence of April Collins to be credible.
He said that the court found that the actions of John Dundon amounted to "sinister and threatening" actions on his part.
