A man killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Arklow in the early hours of Monday morning has been named locally as Declan Kelly.

Detectives are searching for the killer of a shopkeeper stabbed last night during an attempted robbery in Arklow, Co Wicklow.

A man in his 50s is fighting for his life in hospital this morning after being shot on his farm near Aughrim in Co Wicklow yesterday afternoon.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of an Arklow 21-year-old after he allegedly drove his car at him killing him, had "cracked up" losing his temper after a fighting with the man in an Arklow nightclub, a court has heard.