Those involved in the latest spate of gang-related shootings must be put behind bars and their “business of death” undermined and destroyed, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has urged.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar plans to visit the Dublin communities living in fear after three daytime gangland murders in recent days.

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has said the latest shooting in Dublin is a matter of "great concern."

Gardaí fear that there could be more violence after a third murder in seven days in north Dublin.

An Iranian man who got political asylum in Ireland met three Cork men through road bowling in the county and they got together for a raid on a brothel in the city.