Dirty money seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau must be used to rebuild communities devastated by crime, it was urged today.

REAL IRA mastermind Michael McKevitt remained defiant last night as he prepared to appeal his landmark conviction for directing terrorism.

THE woman who helped kidnap her daughter was jailed yesterday, but Christine O’Sullivan said the case is not closed.

The head of gardai intelligence told the Special Criminal Court today that there was a ''a very real and very substantial'' threat to the lives of FBI witness David Rupert and his family because of his involvement in the case of the alleged Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt.