The mother of two men abducted in Limerick last week and found safe today has appealed for an end to trouble between the feuding families.
She said: "I just hope that there isn't any more trouble and there isn't any more people hurt. I just want an end to everything. I want to live in peace now with my children".
Referring to the murder of Kieran Keane last night, Ms Ryan said: "I do, and I mean this, feel sorry for the person who was shot last night and I feel for his children".
Ms Ryan said her sons were in deep shock and had not yet told her where they were taken by their captors.
"I just want to say thanks to the soldiers, to everyone that's brought my children home to me today," she said. "And I want to say to the people who had my children: thanks for leaving them go and thanks for leaving them come home".
Mayor of Limerick Mr John Cronin also appealed today for those involved in the recent violence in the Limerick area to stop.
"This is fairly unusual in the sense I have felt all along and said all along this is more personal than anything else," he said.
"From my point of view there is nothing else involved, and all we can do is appeal to those within these groups to stop this because they are getting nowhere really."
Local priest Fr Michael O'Shea said he saw Eddie and Kieran being reunited with their mother. "They are back safely to their family and there is so much excitement in the house now," he told RTÉ.
Fr O'Shea described Mary Ryan as a "delighted woman" and said: "I was trying to keep that flicker of hope still alive even though it probably was runnning out with the days going by".