One of the biggest personnel shake-ups for years has taken place in the ranks of An Garda Siochána with six officers being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent and a further 34 inspectors elevated to superintendent.

A woman accused of murdering her husband had stabbed him three years earlier after he had a lap dance in Stringfellows nightclub, a court has heard.

A garda investigation into the shooting dead of a man in Dublin’s Firhouse is still ongoing, an inquest heard today.