  R-symmetry leads to a distinct low energy realisation of SUSY with a
significantly modified colour-charged sector featuring a Dirac gluino and
scalar colour octets (sgluons). In the present work we recast results from LHC
BSM searches to discuss the impact of R-symmetry on the squark and gluino mass
limits. We work in the framework of the Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric
Standard Model and take into account the NLO corrections to the squark
production cross sections in the MRSSM that have become available recently. We
find substantially weaker limits on squark masses compared to the MSSM: for
simple scenarios with heavy gluinos and degenerate squarks, the MRSSM mass
limit is $m_{\tilde q} > 1.7$ TeV, approximately 600 GeV lower than in the
MSSM.
