A jury in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother were sent to a hotel for the night after failing to reach a verdict, at the Central Criminal Court today.

A judge directed a jury to find one of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother not guilty due to insufficient evidence against the accused, at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother made additions to part of his statement with gardaí, in which he said that a shotgun he "may have seen before" was not the one shown to him, at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A forensic scientist told the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother that there was “strong support” that the runners of one of the accused had been in contact with the victim’s door and “slight support” that the runners of the other accused had been at the scene, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother heard that quantities of DNA taken from a bag which contained the shotgun that killed the victim were insufficient to determine DNA profiles, at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two Dublin men accused of murder told gardaí he “doesn’t know” how his fingerprint ended up on the double-barrelled shotgun that killed a 65-year-old grandmother, the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother told gardaí he “played no role in the death of that poor woman”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman said in a statement to gardaí he “saw that a woman had been shot” on the Six o’clock news that night, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Two prosecution witnesses accused gardaí of “putting words in their mouths” after their statements implicating two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman were read out at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 65-year-old woman shot to death in her bedroom had moved to sleep in that bedroom because “she thought she would be safer” there, her daughter told the trial of two Dublin men accused of her murder, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two gunmen burst into a west Dublin house smashing windows and kicking through a door before shooting dead a grandmother in her bedroom, a court was told today.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 64-year-old woman was put off until tomorrow after a juror recognised a witness in the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

COWS grazed in fields next to Spindlewood when it was built 36 years ago; now this section of the Rochestown Road has Caseys leather furniture from one end to another.

THE murder of Mary Walsh brings to five the number of women who have suffered a violent death this year in Ireland.

THE gardaí have had some success combating gangland murders this year, arresting and charging a number of individuals.

Two men are to appear in court today charged with the murder of Joan Casey.

GARDAÍ were last night continuing to question five people in relation to the fatal shooting of a Dublin grandmother in the bedroom of her home earlier this month.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Dublin grandmother Joan Casey in a suspected gangland attack which went wrong today arrested five people.

A YOUNG family and a teenage babysitter were subjected to a prolonged period of savage violence yesterday.

The funeral of the 64-year-old woman shot dead in her home in the Tallaght area of Dublin is due to take place later today.

Gardaí who are investigating the murder of a Dublin woman who was shot dead in her home on Saturday do not believe the victim, her husband or her brother was the intended target of her attackers.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell was urged today to set up a specialist unit to combat gangland killers following the murder of a 64-year-old grandmother in Dublin.