Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy will decide soon whether to investigate the affair.
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Limerick rap duo The Rubberbandits achieved success online with their lampoon record "A Song for Willie O'Dea".
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Former RTÉ 2fm dic jockey and friend of O'Dea Michael McNamara described O'Dea's departure as "a bad day for Limerick".
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Fine Gael Senator Eugene Regan brought the matter to the attention of the Oireachtas and stated that O'Dea ought to resign from office.
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The apartment had been rented out to them by Nessan Quinlivan, a former Provisional IRA volunteer and the brother of Sinn Féin candidate for Limerick City Council Maurice Quinlivan.
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As well as O'Malley and McCreevy, the Gang of 22 also included David Andrews, Sylvester Barrett, Séamus Brennan, Ben Briscoe, George Colley, Jim Gibbons, Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy, Ciarán Murphy, Willie O'Dea, Martin O'Donoghue, Joe Walsh and Pearse Wyse as members.
Local TD and Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea, came under pressure to secure changes to the law and greater resources to tackle Limerick city's gangland crime.
Notable players for the Nighthawks include former New York Islanders great Bobby Nystrom; Willie O'Ree; Tom Colley, the franchise's career leader in games (534), goals (204), assists (281) and points (485); ex-Boston Bruin Billy O'Dwyer; career penalty minute leader (688) Al Tuer; ex-WHA star Bobby Sheehan, Bernie Nicholls, Blaine Stoughton and Mike Rogers.
However, Green Party Chairman Senator Dan Boyle wrote on Twitter, that he has "no confidence" in O'Dea and declaring him to be "compromised".
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Three main issues have dominated his recent pronouncements on Limerick: Shannon Airport, Dell and gangland crime.
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On 10 March 2009, O'Dea alleged in an interview with the Limerick Leader that a brothel had been operating in a house owned by Nessan Quinlivan, brother of Maurice Quinlivan, a Sinn Féin candidate in Limerick for the upcoming June 2009 local elections.