A CHIP van in Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s Drumcondra constituency was among the latest food businesses to be shut down under hygiene laws, it emerged yesterday.

A garda witness in the trial of seven men suspected of membership of the Continuity IRA today denied kicking and punching one of the accused during the course of arrest.

A MULTI-MILLION euro Dublin city centre property which belonged to two prominent criminals has been put on the market by the Criminal Assets Bureau.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau is preparing to seize €6m worth of cash and properties in the new year. The agency - made up of garda, revenue and social welfare experts - last week got the keys to property worth €5m belonging to a major cigarette smuggler.

The Special Criminal Court today jailed a suspected member of the IRA after finding the accused deliberately breached his bail conditions.