Mr James Walsh (aged 46) of Mountain View Drive, Churchtown has pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill Mr Paul Williams, crime editor of The Sunday World, on June 25, 2003 and threatening to cause him serious harm later the same day.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a man accused of threatening to kill and cause serious harm to Sunday World journalist Paul Williams.

A peace commissioner who stole €84,995 worth of paint from his employer has received a three- year suspended sentence from Judge Donagh McConagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.