The non-jury court found that it could not rely on the evidence of former Sinn Féin councillor and convicted torturer Jonathan Dowdall

The judges said the court would notify parties if the judgment for the three accused is available before April 17 next

The prosecution told the court the covert recordings show Mr Hutch had authority over the AK-47 rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack

The State hopes to be in a position to close the prosecution's case on Tuesday

A voice on the video says: "There they are, there they are in the van, they're not cops, they're not cops."

The court also ruled that CCTV footage concerning the movement of a taxi associated with Paul Murphy can be admitted as evidence against him

The court heard that Jonathan Dowdall's assessment for witness protection was "ongoing"

The court had yesterday heard that "a curious development" had arisen which resulted in the "generation of a document" that primarily concerned Gerry Hutch

The court heard that the trial would conclude in two weeks "subject to matters falling out of the sky"

Mr Hutch's defence counsel put it to Dowdall that he dismissed his conversations with Gerard Hutch in the audio recording as "simply being talk"

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, has denied he used the promise of bomb timers as "a bargaining tool" to get dissident republicans to mediate in the ...

Mr Dowdall’s time in the witness box won’t be drawing to a close just yet.

The former Sinn Fein councillor also denied talking on the audio tapes about getting "people whacked" and planting bombs

Threat to Dowdall 'on a whole new level', court hears, as he becomes defensive under cross-examination

Party leader says she did not know Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch was present at a fundraising event she attended in 2014

Gerry Hutch's defence lawyer told the judge today that he may cross-examine Jonathan Dowdall until Wednesday next week

The ex-Sinn Féin councillor also said he never knew that Patsy Hutch was involved in crime

A fraught, tense day of cross-examination for State's witness Jonathan Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin councillor said the Hutches were 'willing to throw someone else under the bus' for the Regency Hotel murder

The Regency Hotel murder trial also heard that Gerry Hutch said he "wasn't happy" about Mr Byrne being killed

Mr Hutch denies the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016

Supreme Court judges delivers ruling on a defence application challenging the admissibility of evidence to be given by ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, who was a former co-accused of Mr Hutch

Hutch's defence team is challenging admissibility of evidence to be given by former SF councillor

Mr Hutch's defence lawyer said he wished to raise an issue on the admissibility of evidence to be given by Jonathan Dowdall

Counsel said that the prosecution was asking the court to put a 'strange' and 'very wrong' interpretation on the Criminal Justice Surveillance Act 2009

Prosecution said once a surveillance device is placed and retrieved lawfully on a car within this jurisdiction, "then it does not matter a damn where the vehicle was in the meantime"

The defence is objecting to the admissibility of almost eight hours of the contents of a 10-hour audio recording of conversations between Gerry Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall

Special Criminal Court heard final 45 minutes of a 10-hour audio recording of conversations between Gerry Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall criticised party leader Mary Lou McDonald for not attending the funeral of murdered man Edward 'Neddy' Hutch and told his brother, Regency Hotel murder accused Gerard Hutch: "But ya's were good enough to ...

The trial also heard two men in the audio discuss, bombs, Danil Kinahan, politics and celebrities

'Mary, I’m after being dragged here, are you aware of that' Dowdall appealed after probing from Sinn Féin staffer

Gerry Hutch can also be heard in the audio recording saying he liked Imelda May

The court also heard today that tracker records confirm that Dowdall's Land Cruiser was in Northern Ireland for almost eight hours on March 7, 2016, when audio relied on by prosecution was recorded

Gerard Hutch’s defence counsel said he 'will need just a little bit of time to consider matters'

Prosecution says Hutch had asked Dowdall to arrange a meeting with provisional republicans to mediate or resolve the Hutch-Kinahan feud, Special Criminal Court heard

'Many people are very traumatised by the comments of Mary Lou McDonald in the last two days,' said Fianna Fáil's Jack Chambers 

The court also heard that a mobile phone registered to Paul Murphy was turned off between 1.20pm and 3pm on the day David Byrne was shot dead

Paul Murphy had also said he had bought the Avensis off Eddie 'Neddie' Hutch, the older brother of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch

Brendan Grehan said the defence would make the case that if a tracker was placed on a vehicle driven by Jonathan Dowdall — with Gerry Hutch allegedly a passenger — and used outside the State, it would be illegal

Mr Justice Burns said: "We have had a lightning bolt from Mr Grehan today in relation to what might be at play.

Members of the public have been excluded from the non-jury court during the NSU officers' testimony

The non-jury court has already heard allegations that Mr Hutch told Jonathan Dowdall that he was “part of the team” that carried out the gangland murder

The prosecution asked that the public should be excluded from the court when members of the National Surveillance Unit give evidence

State maintains accused made to two separate journeys to Northern Ireland weeks after David Byrne's murder at the Regency Hotel