A Louth man was seen receive a box containing a pistol and ammunition, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that firearms residue was found on clothes “similar” to clothes the accused man had been wearing the morning of the alleged murder.

A north Dublin businessman who raped a foreign tourist in a Killarney hotel has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.