A Dublin man has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge of robbery and of falsely imprisoning a Brinks Allied employee, his mother, and a child.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of being involved in a tiger kidnapping has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

A grandmother has told a jury that she and a nine-year-old girl were pushed into a car after being kidnapped from her home by armed hooded men.

A man has gone on trial charged with a false imprisonment and robbery of a Brinks Allied worker which the prosecution claim has the accused’s “fingerprints both literally and figuratively all over it”.

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.