State lawyers battling to have a rapist's jail term increased today insisted the three-year suspended sentence he received was exceedingly lenient.

A defence barrister in his closing speech to a jury in the trial of a Dublin murder has said the State’s main witness "is a bought man, a bought and paid for man".

The driver of a BMW car in which a 25-year-old man was shot in has denied accusations that he "deliberately drove him" to Cloverhill prison last year, the Central Criminal Court has heard.