DETECTIVES are investigating whether the murder of criminal figure Christopher McDonagh is linked to rows he recently had with other criminals.

A PARISH priest yesterday spoke of the devastation caused to a family following the brutal murder of a young man in west Dublin.

A man was shot dead after he jumped from the first-floor bedroom of his home just metres from a garda station, detectives said today.

A man who savagely beat two neighbours across the head with a table leg after his wife got into an argument late at night with one of the victims' daughters has been jailed for seven years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.