Gardaí are to step up armed patrols over the coming days following the murder of Eric Fowler in west Dublin on Saturday night, write Cate McCurry and Stephen Rogers.

Four men have been charged with conspiracy to murder after being arrested in Dublin last week as part of a major operation by gardaí investigating the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.

Latest: Gardaí are looking for up to three people involved in the murder of 35-year-old Darragh Nugent.

An Estonian man has appeared in court charged with conspiring to murder a man called James Gately in Northern Ireland.