A 34-year-old Dublin man has been convicted of being the murderer in drag who gunned a man down with a sub-machine gun in a busy car park.

Nasty and abusive text messages were sent, late at night, by a young man to his own mother, putting her in such fear she called the gardaí.

Three men associated with murdered Real IRA man Alan Ryan have been warned by a judge following disturbances in court.

THE distraught mother of a young woman, who along with her two children and a friend were stabbed to death in a house in Newcastle West, yesterday confronted the man charged with their murder.