Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A man walked free from court yesterday after the State’s legal team dropped a murder charge against him.

A man who was shot dead on a country lane was worried about men hanging out near his home, a witness at a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

Dublin “assassins” murdered a man living alone in a country lane because he found a €30,000 stash of drugs belonging to a criminal gang, a prosecution barrister said at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two men have gone on trial accused of murdering a 48-year-old father of six in Clara, Co Offaly.

Two men remain in Garda custody in Co Offaly this evening in connection with the death of Christy Daly in Clara last year.

Gardaí investigating a murder in Co Offaly have charged a third man in connection with the investigation.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Christy Daly in Co Offaly have arrested a man.

The High Court has rejected claims that a man accused of murdering Christy Daly is being unlawfully detained on a holding charge to stop him fleeing the country.

A 23-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Christy Daly in County Offaly.

Gardaí are hunting a crime gang who were interrupted by officers while dumping the body of a man wearing a bullet-proof vest in rural Dublin at the weekend.

A row over a move in a chess game is believed to have been a factor in the latest in a series of violent deaths across Ireland since the start of the new year.

A 47-year-old man whose body was found in Co Offaly yesterday suffered a number of gunshot wounds, gardaí have said.

Gardaí probing the death of 47-year-old Christy Daly, who was found dead in a drain in Co Offaly yesterday, have upgraded their investigation to a murder enquiry.

The body of a man found in a drain near a burnt out caravan in Offaly may have been there since Dec 29.

Gardaí have named the man found dead in a drain in Co Offaly, as 47 year-old Christy Daly.

UP to fairly recent times, bogs were simply regarded as sources of fuel or useless wasteland.

FOUR people died in three separate motoring accidents on the country’s roads at the weekend.