GARDAÍ investigating a double murder in Dublin earlier in this month were delighted by the response from a television appeal on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Edward Ward in Tuam, Co Galway today.

AS A grieving mother made a heart-rending appeal for an end to gun violence yesterday, a priest working with disadvantaged youths has accused the Government of handing over youngsters to the drug barons.

The family of a 24-year-old man gunned down in a double gangland murder in Dublin have offered a reward to catch his killer.

A Traveller who was allegedly shot at by a gunman at a family funeral in Sligo has claimed the man "pulled out a gun from inside his pants" and fired, the Central Criminal Court has heard.