Numerous bags of matte-white powder seized after a garda raid were today shown to the three judges sitting at the Special Criminal Court trial of Brian Rattigan, who is accused of possessing €1m worth of heroin.

Two men who fired a gunshot through the living room window of a Drimnagh home before speeding off in a car have each been jailed for eight years.

A crack cocaine addict who carried out 16 house burglaries within a year in various city suburbs has been remanded in custody pending sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.