One of four men accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a Securicor worker and his family and the robbery of the company of €2.28m has been found guilty on day 49 of the trial.

One of four men accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a Securicor worker and his family and the robbery of the company of €2.28m has been found not guilty after a 45-day long trial.

The trial of four men accused of kidnapping a Securicor worker and his family and robbing €2.28m has heard that two of the accused were “lifelong friends” and members of a horse-owning syndicate.

The jury in the trial of four men accused of abducting a Securicor worker and his family before robbing €2.8m has heard that gardaí identified nine mobile numbers after tracing a call made by the kidnappers from a remote wooded area.

The victim of a 'tiger' kidnapping told co-workers that his worst nightmare had come true and that his family were being held hostage, a trial has heard today.

A jury has heard how a gang held a Securior worker’s family hostage in the Dublin Mountains in order to steal over €2m.

Four Dublin men have gone on trial accused of the false imprisonment of a family of four and the robbery of €2.28m in cash eight years ago.

A man has been arrested in Dublin in connection with ongoing investigations into criminal activity.

A 42-year-old man questioned about the murder of a 23-year-old in Dublin over the weekend has been released without charge.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 42-year-old man in connection with the murder of Dean Fitzpatrick.

DUBLIN gardaí have appealed for help in tracing a 13-year-old boy missing since yesterday.

A FORMER Fianna Fáil councillor at the centre of an alleged blackmail plot has denied in court that he was taking cocaine.

EMOTIONS and social pressures around food, coupled with limited budgets are causing food poverty, which now affects just under one in six (15%) of the population.

A binge drinking teenager who assaulted strangers on St Patrick’s Day for two years in a row using a bottle as a weapon has been given a four-year suspended sentence.

A former Dublin priest who was previously jailed for sexually abusing six boys has been sentenced to 16 years for abusing a further three victims.

A Dublin man has been convicted of running over his ex-girlfriend’s employer causing him to lose a foot.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of running over his ex-girlfriend’s employer causing him to lose his foot has reached it final stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has gone on trial for running over a man he found in his ex-girlfriend’s house, causing him to lose a foot.

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment will be sentenced later.

Back in her native Coolock she is the single mother of a 14-year-old teenage girl and a fully qualified beauty therapist looking for a job.

Three men caught with cocaine and heroin valued at €1.4m in a garda drugs operation have been jailed for three and eight-year terms by Judge Katherine Delahunt for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former roofer has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing heroin valued €6,000 in March of last year.

GARDAÍ tracking a wholesale drugs distribution gang in north Dublin are expected to make arrests in the coming weeks.

A man whose savage drugs and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been given nine years in consecutive sentences for the assualt and for thefts from psychiatric inpatients.

A north Dublin man has been convicted of having cocaine worth €70,000.

MORE than 100 jobs are to be slashed in Dublin and Tipperary after food manufacturer Premier Foods announced the closure of three of its sites.

THE father of a young Dublin mother killed by a gunshot while attending a birthday party in March 2006 has expressed regret that nobody will face a criminal prosecution for his daughter’s murder.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl was lucky to escape injury during a gun attack on her father in North Dublin.

Heavier fines for possession of guns are urgently needed to make the streets safer, it was claimed today.

LIMERICK LIONS face their most important weekend in the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague with do or die games against Abrakebabra Tigers in Tralee tomorrow night and UCD at the UL Arena on Sunday afternoon.

PATRICK POPE, winner of a Nivea for Men SuperLeague medal with UCC Demons last season, appears to have come to the rescue of Merry Monk Ballina, judging by his performance against Shamrock Hoops on Saturday night.

First up in basketball this weekend is National Cup action when UCC Demons take on local rivals Neptune in a backyard brawl at the Mardyke Arena in Cork on Friday night to determine which team advances through the knockout stages.

LUKE O’HEA led the charge as Tralee made their title intentions clear by beating UCD 126-119 over the weekend.

A man who committed robberies which his own defence counsel described as "chilling" will be sentenced on June 20, 2005 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two women went to the flat of men they met after a night of drinking and left the door on the latch so their boyfriends could rob the place, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.

Two Dublin men who demanded money for the Continuity IRA from the owner of a Temple Bar lap dancing club were jailed for membership of an illegal organisation by the Special Criminal Court today.

A Dublin man who demanded money for the Continuity IRA from a lap dancing club owner was found guilty of membership of an illegal organisation at the Special Criminal Court today.

The biggest ever international basketball tournament to take place in Ireland begins tomorrow.

A man has been jailed for 15 years in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his part in holding four people hostage for up to two hours.