Gardaí are keeping a close eye on suspects travelling in and out of Dublin Airport in the run-up to tomorrow’s funeral of Edward Hutch Sr.

The High Court has heard a convicted killer challenging his transfer to a maximum security prison is in a ‘frail mental condition'.

A convicted killer has been sentenced to an extra five years in jail for co-ordinating a botched cash van raid during which gardaí shot dead his co-accused.

A man accused of taking part in an attempted armed robbery in which a raider was shot dead has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge.

The State has failed in its appeal against what it regarded as the leniency of a seven-year sentence handed down to a well known Dublin criminal.

Two men are due to go on trial this morning accused of murdering a man in Co Meath on St Stephen's Day three years ago.

FOUR men have appeared in court in connection with an attempted robbery of a cash-in-transit van last year, during which one man was fatally shot by gardaí.

Four men have appeared in court charged over a foiled armed robbery in which one man was shot dead by gardaí.

A Dublin man, who was apprehended with a loaded pistol while on bail for his involvement with a motorcycle theft ring, has been sentenced to 10 years with two suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A known Dublin criminal who tried to sell a stolen motorbike to undercover gardaí has been jailed for two years.