A YOUNG man was in custody yesterday after the biggest ecstasy find by gardaí this year, with more than 180,000 tablets seized.

A YOUNG woman who witnessed the brutal murder of her boyfriend on Tuesday night was too traumatised to talk to gardaí yesterday.

Gardaí investigating the death of Damien Dowdall are appealing for information about a silver-coloured saloon car with a 03 D registration plate.

THE young man brutally killed in his home by close-range shotgun blasts was not a criminal, but had been seen with drug gang members who gardaí said “don’t need many reasons to kill a young fella”.

Tearful parents today visited the scene where their son was shot dead in the first gun murder in Ireland of 2007.

A 22-year-old man has been shot dead in a gangland-style assassination in the Clondalkin area of Dublin.