The Special Criminal Court has ordered that convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan should pay more than €17m within a year after finding that he had benefited from importing 17,500 kilos of cannabis into the country over a two-year period.

A defence counsel for Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, submitted at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that there was "a credibility problem" with interviews conducted by the gardai with the accused.