A building contractor has described how a black Jeep used to kidnap a family in a €2.28m robbery was stolen from him at a Malahide construction site.

A former Securicor worker on trial for a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" told gardaí he laughed when he saw Mr Paul Richardson try to squeeze his cash-laden vehicle between two other vans the morning of the robbery.

The Securicor driver in a "tiger kidnapping" four years ago has confirmed there had been a rumour in his company that someone was followed home before the €2.28m robbery.

A Co Kildare company director was given a nine months suspended prison sentence and fined a total of €100,000 for fixing car prices as a member of a cartel by a judge at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today.

DNA matching both Meg Walsh and her husband John O’Brien, currently on trial in the Central Criminal Court for her murder, was found in the boot of her car the jury in his trial have heard.

A woman whose husband is on trial for her murder, claimed she had been assaulted less than two weeks before she disappeared, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The jury hearing the trial of Brian Kearney who is charged with murdering his wife Siobhan did not sit today after confusion over when a jury member had to attend a funeral.

Tests have shown that a flex that was found around the deceased body of Siobhan Kearney could not have held her weight for more than five to seven seconds, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was seeking advice on marital separation the day before her death, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A postman who stored over €1m worth of cannabis in bushes near his home to repay a debt has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An attempt by the prosecution on Friday to revoke Joe O'Reilly's bail and keep him in custody until the jury had finished their deliberations was rejected by the Judge.

The woman with whom murder accused Joe O'Reilly was having an affair told the jury in the Central Criminal Court today that they were planning a 'permanent future' together.

Murder accused Joe O'Reilly told gardaí that he had his phone with him all day on the day his wife Rachel died, the jury in the Central Criminal Court trial heard today.

The marriage of Joe and Rachel O'Reilly was not a happy one, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Prosecution evidence in the trial of a Louth man accused of murdering a German woman in 2001 concluded at the Central Criminal court today.

DNA profiling carried out on the body of a young German woman revealed a match with that of the man accused of her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

A student couple whose badly charred bodies were found in an apartment in Dublin in March 2001 were strangled before their apartment was set on fire, the deputy state pathologist has told the Central Criminal Court.

Fingerprint evidence from the Garda Technical Bureau has never been wrong, a bureau member claimed today as he was cross-examined in a double murder trial.

One of two men picked out at an identity parade is the man accused of the double murder of two Chinese students in an apartment in Dublin, a jury has heard.