A key witness did not grasp the “seriousness” of her situation when she made a statement to gardaí concerning the fatal shooting of Gareth Hutch, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A trial has heard today that an unmarked patrol car driven by a detective garda was well over the speed limit just before the vehicle and a 4x4 were in collision on the M50 in Dublin.

A top detective said “I'm f***ed, I'm f***ed” when an unmarked Garda car he was driving crashed on the M50 motorway after he had spent hours in a pub, a court has heard.

A Cork man has todaybeen sentenced to six years in prison by Mr Justice Peter Charleton at the Central Criminal Court after he admitted to depriving his former fiancé of medical treatment by masquerading as a doctor.