The nephew of Marlo Hyland has been jailed after he was caught test firing handguns in his back garden.

ELAINE Hyland left her home soon after 9am on December 12, 2006. She was accompanied by her two daughters, aged four and two. The older girl was being dropped to school.

COCAINE with a street value of about €3.5 million, which was seized during a raid on a Traveller camp is believed to have belonged to Ireland’s biggest drugs trafficker.

DETECTIVES are investigating whether the murder of criminal figure Christopher McDonagh is linked to rows he recently had with other criminals.

A trained mechanic who used his social networking site to advertise the fact that he was going to shoot an acquaintance of his ex-girlfriends and that he would “do the prison time for it” has been jailed for three years.

THE garda file on the murder Latvian mother Baiba Saulite is expected to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Autumn.

Cocaine users are caught in an international enterprise that’s fuelled by greed, ruled by fear and which regards murder as a means of quality control, writes Caroline O’Doherty

GARDAÍ believe they have dealt another major blow to the gang which has taken over from murdered boss Martin ‘Marlo’ Hyland.

GARDAÍ last night launched an investigation after a man was found shot dead among sand dunes in Meath.

GARDAÍ are investigating separate reports that a major Irish drug dealer has been shot dead in Spain.

THE family of Anthony Campbell said it all. They do not expect the killers of the apprentice plumber to be brought to justice.

Every arm of the State must pull together to ensure the rule of law prevails against spiralling gun crime, the Minister for Justice said today.

A man has been shot dead in Dublin in the latest of a series of gangland killings that is piling pressure on the Government.