Former senator and county councillor Don Lydon has been discharged from his corruption trial following legal discussions.

Businessman Jim Kennedy “emphatically” denied ever giving money to ex-lobbyist Frank Dunlop, the Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was gunned down in front of his 11-year-old stepdaughter in an apparent gangland killing yesterday.

A former Fine Gael politician appeared at the Dublin District Court this afternoon to face charges of taking corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's.

A Special Branch detective told a court today that two men were detained by armed detectives after their car crashed into an official garda car as they tried to escape from a pursuing patrol car.

Former Government Press Secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop will be sentenced next week after detailed accounts of his bribes to county councillors were given at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A MAN has lost a bid to have either the Supreme Court or the European Court of Justice decide legal issues arising from his unsuccessful bid to bring a legal challenge to the granting of planning permission for a gas terminal in connection with the Corrib gas field.

Members of the Garda Special Detective Unit pulled over a car at gunpoint and found what an officer believed to be electric timing devices in the boot, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

The hearing of evidence in the corruption trial of former Dublin City and County Assistant Manager, Mr George Redmond, has ended and the jury is scheduled to begin its deliberations on Tuesday next after being addressed by counsel and by Judge Michael White.