Latest: A forensic scientist has told a murder trial that the deceased's blood was found throughout a house and there was evidence that a clean-up had taken place.

A young Dublin father with an “outstanding” work ethic has received a seven year sentence with two suspended for possessing over €114,000 of cocaine at his former home.

A “major player in the heroin trade” has been jailed for twenty years for possession of over a million euro of the drug while his “lackey” has been given a six-year sentence.

TWO men were remanded in custody last night after being charged in connection with two weekend burglaries in which one man was tied up and another attacked.

A Dublin teenager who made a suicide pact with his co-accused has been given a four years suspended jail sentence for a drink and drugs-fuelled assault which left another teenager with permanent facial scars.