Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to visit Buncrana Garda Station in Co Donegal later to pay his respects to the colleagues of a young garda who was killed following a crash yesterday morning.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today led tributes to the young garda who died today after being injured in a head-on car crash.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of shooting another man dead in a car on the Clontarf Road nearly four years ago has seen video footage of the scene taken from a passing bus on the night in question.

A young man who viciously assaulted an 85-year-old lady and removed her underwear after breaking into her home has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by Judge Tony Hunt.