Gardaí are continuing to question three men in connection with an armed robbery in Co Meath yesterday.

The Special Criminal Court trial of Brian Rattigan, who is accused of possessing €1m worth of heroin, has heard video-link evidence from a mobile phone forensics expert based in New Zealand.

Mobile phone records are to be used in evidence against a Dublin schoolboy charged with possessing a semi automatic pistol and 20 rounds of ammunition, a court heard today.

A judge has refused bail to two Dublin men charged in connection with the alleged test firing of guns in one of their back gardens.

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with an incident in which guns were allegedly test fired in the back garden of a house in Dublin last week.

A man and a woman arrested by gardaí over the seizure of two handguns, ammunition and a silencer have been released without charge.

Five men were being questioned by orgainsed crime detectives tonight after gardaí foiled a suspected gangland hit.

FINE GAEL last night tabled proposals for an overhaul of the country’s sex trafficking legislation, saying the existing laws were “piecemeal and insufficient”.

A MAN is due to be charged this morning in connection with last week’s tiger kidnapping in Dublin.

GARDAÍ have smashed a wholesale cocaine factory operated by one of the country’s biggest drug traffickers.

THERE has been no apparent drop in the amount of drugs in circulation despite a massive rise in drug seizures, according to the National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016.

Four men are being held at garda stations in Dublin after cannabis worth an estimated €800,000 was seized yesterday.

A man was being questioned by detectives today after the seizure of €200,000 worth of heroin.

A “PARANOID” crime boss is the top suspect behind the first gangland attack of the year, which left one man dead and another man fighting for his life.

THREE men in their 20s have appeared in court following the shooting of a youth earlier this week.

FIVE men were being questioned last night following the latest Dublin shooting linked to a gangland feud, with gardaí on high alert in case the bloody criminal dispute escalates further.

Three men were arrested after drugs were found in an industrial estate in west Dublin, gardaí said.

Fine Gael says local hospitals must keep their Accident and Emergency departments.

Fine Gael will set up a dedicated Garda Organised Crime Unit if they are elected, party leader Enda Kenny pledged tonight.