Six-year-old Millie and her four-year-old brother suffered serious burn injuries after their mother Sheila's car was firebombed outside their house in Moyross last September.

The Sunday Tribune understands that a fundraising account opened to raise money to help treat the children has received a total of over 115,000. The biggest donation came from wellknown Limerick business tycoon JP McManus who lodged a cheque for 5,000.

Dozens of schools, pubs and other businesses across the country have donated money to the account which is in the name of Sheila Murray.

It had originally been intended that any monies received would be used to pay for the ongoing medical treatment that the children will require and it had not been anticipated that such a large amount would be raised.

Millie and Gavin have both been released from hospital and are recovering well.

The Murray family have been embroiled in controversy since the two youngsters were injured while sitting in their mother's car in Pineview Gardens, Moyross, last 10 September. Three local teenagers have been charged in relation to the incident.

Sheila Murray and her eight children were given a luxury four-bedroom home from Limerick City Council in the Clonile estate which prompted angry locals to sign a petition against the decision.

Over half the residents of the 270,000 homes on the Old Cratloe Road on the northside of Limerick presented the petition to the minister for defence Willie O'Dea last December.

Sheila Murray was forced to leave her Moyross home after a brick was thrown through her front door. A hired car that she used to visit her two children in Our Lady's Hospital in Dublin was also targeted and damaged by vandals.