THE cash-in-transit industry is “gravely concerned” Garda protection could be curtailed because of budgetary cutbacks.

THE man whose crime-fighting work while head of the state’s forensic science lab nearly cost him his life will be honoured tonight for bravery.

A murder trial which heard allegations of witness intimidation dramatically collapsed at the Central Criminal Court today when the Director of Public Prosecutions entered a nolle prosecqui.

A key prosecution witness told a murder trial she was frightened when two gunmen men entered her flat last April but denied that she was "terrified" into retracting statements implicating the accused man.