A convicted drug dealer has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell after gardaí spotted him digging up heroin worth €178,000 three months after he was released from a previous drug sentence.

A retired senior garda today denied intimidating and assaulting a murder suspect in Donegal.

Gardaí in Tallaght have appealed for information on the whereabouts of an 11-year-old boy missing since yesterday.