The trial of a man accused of intimidating a victim of attempted murder and trying to persuade him not to give evidence at the trial of his attacker has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Jordanian man who claims an Irishman attempted to murder him by shooting him in the head at a Leasureplex in Dublin’s Blanchardstown, has admitted that he shot at a joyrider with a legally held shotgun several years earlier.

A Jordanian man who claims an Irishman attempted to murder him by firing shots at him in the Leisureplex in Dublin’s Blanchardstown has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that gardaí once searched his house for firearms.

A convicted sex offender who carried out a "serial type of abuse" on two young brothers 15 years ago has been jailed for four years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.