Dublin “assassins” murdered a man living alone in a country lane because he found a €30,000 stash of drugs belonging to a criminal gang, a prosecution barrister said at the Central Criminal Court today.

It was literally a case of a criminal laundering money.

A worker at a multinational retailer in a Dublin shopping centre, who claimed she was victimised after she complained that a security guard massaged her buttocks, has been awarded €33,000 by the Equality Tribunal.

The trial of five Limerick men for the murder of Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of his nephew opened amid tight security in Dublin's Cloverhill courthouse today.