Gardaí investigating the discovery of a man's body in a back garden in Limerick have made an arrest.

The woman who's in her mid 30s was taken into custody last night.

The State Pathologist is at the scene today at the Pines housing estate in Briarfield, Castletroy, where the human remains were found yesterday.

A formal identification has yet to be made, but it's believed the discovery may be linked to the case of a missing 38-year-old Polish man.

Superintendent Derek Smart is treating the man's death as suspicious;