A jury will return to the High Court tomorrow to resume considering its verdict on proceedings by solicitor Gerald Kean alleging he was defamed in a newspaper article concerning a visit by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to his Dublin office.

Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired at a house in Finglas in Dublin last night.

Gangland murder victim Eric Fowler was under pressure to pay a drug debt and had separately ordered a local criminal to pay a debt owed to him.

Drew Harris is quietly spoken. That much has been made clear by people close to him, writes Cormac O'Keeffe

Prison and Garda authorities are investigating a security incident at the weekend when a replica firearm was discovered in the grounds of a Dublin jail.

Garda districts at the coalface of tackling gangs affiliated to the Kinahan cartel have seen a drop of almost 30% in staffing.

Charlie Flanagan was speaking just 48 hours after the latest killing in the capital linked to the ongoing gangland feud.

2017 was dominated by knives, rural crime, burglaries and gangland feuds, reports Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

Three cars worth €100k, 20 watches worth €200k, and €28,500 cash seized from drug dealing brothers.

The publishers and authors of a book about the Kinahan crime cartel have apologised in the High Court to a Dublin man and stated he has no association with the Hutch or Kinahan gangs.

Gardaí have scored another success against the Kinahan crime cartel after they arrested a suspected hit squad member after he landed off a flight at Dublin Airport.

A bank account containing around €200,000 has been frozen after a series of CAB raids in Dublin today.

Garda armed units are on high alert after the Hutch gang exacted revenge on the Kinahan cartel by shooting dead a low ranking member.

Garda sources claim they repeatedly warned a man who survived a Kinahan cartel murder attempt on Wednesday to stay out of the city, but that these warnings were ignored.

Criminal gangs are showing their ‘flexibility’ by laundering their profits from criminal activity through the horse-racing industry and gyms, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

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

There is an acute threat of violence hanging over part of Dublin this weekend from the Kinahan-Hutch feud as gardaí prepare a security plan for the first anniversary of the murder of Kinahan ‘lieutenant’ David Byrne.

Gardaí are investigating whether the latest massive drug seizure is connected to the Hutch criminal grouping.

Gardaí are braced for a backlash from the Hutch gang against the Kinahan cartel amid intelligence of a death threat against a senior cartel figure.

Update 1.45pm: Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald is calling on the Taoiseach to evaluate the Government's approach to dealing with organised crime in Dublin.

A man arrested in Spain for the gangland murder that ignited the bloody Hutch- Kinahan feud is expected to appear in court there today.

Gardaí do not suspect a serious knife attack on a member of the extended Hutch family is linked to the feud with the Kinahan crime cartel.

Cormac O’Keeffe delves into the bloodbath raging on the streets of Dublin, a war where cartel bosses on the southside of the city and abroad, are ‘pulling the strings'.

Gardaí suspect dissident republican Michael Barr was shot dead because it was believed by the Kinahan cartel he provided a “safe house” to one of the gunmen in the Regency Hotel attack.

Gardaí are investigating two murders in Dublin in the latest spate of violence in the city.

Gardaí say the seizure of a cache of high-powered firearms had “saved lives”, pointing out the weapons would have been “used” repeatedly and also probably ‘rented out’.

One senior garda yesterday said it is now 3-1 to the Kinahan cartel, writes Cormac O'Keeffe

Garda checkpoints and armed patrols are back in the heartland of the Kinahan cartel in south Dublin to prevent retaliation for the “barbaric” murder of Hutch associate Noel Duggan.

Gardaí fear a further round of bloodshed in the Kinahan-Hutch feud after a long-time associate of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was gunned down in Co Meath last night.

Gardaí are keeping a close eye on suspects travelling in and out of Dublin Airport in the run-up to tomorrow’s funeral of Edward Hutch Sr.