A garda has revealed that the "suspect" phone from which threatening calls were made to a journalist was not the accused's phone, which was itself 'in contact' with a senior garda at that same time.

A senior garda has denied at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that any information was "leaked" to a journalist about a meeting he had with the accused at Sundrive Road garda station.

A journalist has told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he was "terrified" by death threats allegedly made to him by a man he believed "had the capacity and wherewithal" to carry them out.