Former garda confidential recipient Oliver Connolly is to be invited to give evidence before the Oireachtas Justice Committee about how he handled whistleblowers and complaints in the force.

A third State supergrass, Charles Bowden, has been giving evidence to the Special Criminal Court this afternoon about the Veronica Guerin murder in 1996.

A third state supergrass, Charles Bowden, has taken the witness stand in the Special Criminal Court to give evidence against John Gilligan.