DRUGS, cash and imitation firearms were seized during a Garda crackdown on dissident and criminal activity in Cork.

A 15-YEAR-OLD Limerick youth travelled to the home of a man who had earlier been involved in a pub row with his father and threatened him with a gun, it has emerged.

FIVE people arrested by gardaí in raids in Limerick on Tuesday had their periods of detention extended by a further 24 hours yesterday.

ONE man was in custody in Limerick last night after a terror hijacking in which a young woman was held captive in a stolen car as it sped through the city.

A retired Garda ballistics expert told the Don Tidey kidnap trial today that he concluded that gunfire from two automatic weapons had been fired in the direction of a recruit garda and soldier who were killed when the supermarket executive was rescued almost twenty five years ago.

JOE O’Reilly claimed his wife Rachel was reported to social services over her behaviour towards the couple’s two young sons in the months before she was murdered.

A Dublin man who was bludgeoned to death was possibly asleep at the time he was attacked, a garda ballistics expert has told a murder trial.

There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.