Two Dubliners who were caught going to a stash of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Glanmire, Co Cork, were jailed for 12 years today.

A man who brutally robbed and killed an 83-year-old man in Co Westmeath last year will be sentenced next week.

The man accused of laundering over £3m from the Northern Bank robbery claimed today that the gardaí wanted him to "nail" Phil Flynn – former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and that if didn’t they would turn his family into the McBreartys of Donegal.

The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

A 36 year-old Latvian fisherman who killed a fellow countryman in a fight and threw his body over the side of a fishing trawler into Howth Harbour will be sentenced for manslaughter next week.

THE EARLY morning knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse in West Cork didn’t only herald the arrival of air-sea rescue helicopters. It led to the biggest drugs case in the history of the State.

A hospital porter turned an apartment into a cocaine factory with a multi-million euro earning potential after meeting an Irishman in Thailand who told him how to go about it – and this evening he was jailed for twelve years.

A heroin dealer in Cork city was jailed for six years today, as the drugs squad said the problem had surfaced in the area over a year ago.

The Morris Tribunal is for the first time ever going to the High Court to compel a witness to give evidence after Detective Sergeant John White failed to appear before the resumed hearings into garda corruption.

A 47-year-old Offalyman has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of his son at the Central Criminal court today.

Four men were arrested and charged today with assault causing serious harm to a Cork Institute of Technology student who has been on a life support machine since February last year.