Children in Dublin 15 have seen men with guns less than 100 yards from their school gate.

An e-class Mercedes worth around €40,000 was seized yesterday from a criminal gang with connections with the Hutch grouping.

Paddy Lyons, the 90-year-old Waterford farmer who was beaten to death in his isolated home, was buried this week.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has been accused of gross negligence over the failure to fill a key Garda post in an area of Limerick ravaged by gang crime.