Detectives investigating the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly have denied that offers to drop a murder charge were made to an accused man who turned prosecution witness before he gave a statement about the case.

A Dublin couple who stored over half a million euros worth of cannabis in their home have been given a seven year suspended sentence.

A ward sister has told a jury that she couldn’t recall having a conversation with a nurse accused of poisoning two patients in relation to her giving one of them an injection the previous night.

The State pathologist has told a jury that an elderly man who was allegedly poisoned by a nurse died of heart failure that was not related to an injection he received from the accused.