The deaths of two Irish people were yesterday being investigated in Dubai.

Two separate investigations have been launched following the death of a young man in a trench collapse near a rural waste tyre depot.

A senior garda said tonight he was horrified by allegations that one of his officers had built an explosive device in the yard of a garda station.

THE garda superintendent who authorised the return of John Carthy’s shotgun did not believe him suitable to hold a firearm but was swayed by the contrary opinion of a psychiatrist.