Gardaí investigating the murder of Mark Desmond in the Lucan area on December 2 have arrested two men.

Shooting victim Mark Desmond died of multiple gunshot wounds and was identified following his death by fingerprint technology, an inquest into his death heard.

Gardaí are trying to locate a gang which pursued and assaulted a man, before inflicting fatal injuries by driving a car over him.

Forensic tests will continue today on two guns linked to the murder of the violent criminal Mark Desmond.

Ballistic experts are conducting forensic tests on two guns found in the wake of a suspected gangland assassination in Dublin.

NEW laws to combat witness “amnesia” will help the State pursue prosecutions, a barrister suggests in a legal review.

GARDAÍ are bracing themselves for retaliation after a serious criminal escaped death in one of four shootings in Dublin in little over 12 hours.

A nationwide gun amnesty is to be held in the autumn, it was confirmed today after a spate of shootings in Dublin left five people injured.

A drug dealer who read law textbooks in prison today claimed he had not been given adequate time to defend himself in a trial two years ago.

Angry scenes followed the jailing of a Dublin man in the Central Criminal Court today when relatives of two murder victims lunged at the accused and had to be restrained.

The families of two murder victims clapped and cheered when a Central Criminal Court jury today found a 27-year-old Dublin guilty of firearms charges.

A Central Criminal Court jury retired to a hotel tonight after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.

The prosecution has closed its case in the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.

A former heroin addict today claimed that he implicated a man on trial for firearms offences as part of a "deal" to get out of the garda station and avoid being charged.

A heroin user has denied giving guns to a Dublin man on trial for firearms offences claiming he never met the accused until the trial began.

A witness in a firearms trial today told the jury that it was not the accused who paid him for a second-hand car later linked to the murder of two young men.

A neighbour of a man charged with firearms offences has said he saw the accused in Ballyfermot on New Year’s Eve 1999, the same night that shots were heard near the Grand Canal in Co Kildare where two bodies were later recovered.

A man who was charged with the double murder of two young men whose bodies were dumped in the Grand Canal has told the Central Criminal Court the charges were dropped without explanation last Monday.