A retired Garda ballistics expert told the Don Tidey kidnap trial today that he concluded that gunfire from two automatic weapons had been fired in the direction of a recruit garda and soldier who were killed when the supermarket executive was rescued almost twenty five years ago.

A hidden makeshift camp camouflaged in dense woodland was discovered where a supermarket boss was held captive, a court heard today.

The prosecution has closed its case in the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.

A piece of a bicycle tube around a box of ammunition found in an arms dump in Co Wexford formed "a perfect physical fit" with a piece of tube found at the workshop of a man accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.