The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother heard that quantities of DNA taken from a bag which contained the shotgun that killed the victim were insufficient to determine DNA profiles, at the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two Dublin men accused of murder told gardaí he “doesn’t know” how his fingerprint ended up on the double-barrelled shotgun that killed a 65-year-old grandmother, the Central Criminal Court today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother told gardaí he “played no role in the death of that poor woman”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman said in a statement to gardaí he “saw that a woman had been shot” on the Six o’clock news that night, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Two prosecution witnesses accused gardaí of “putting words in their mouths” after their statements implicating two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman were read out at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 65-year-old woman shot to death in her bedroom had moved to sleep in that bedroom because “she thought she would be safer” there, her daughter told the trial of two Dublin men accused of her murder, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two gunmen burst into a west Dublin house smashing windows and kicking through a door before shooting dead a grandmother in her bedroom, a court was told today.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a 64-year-old woman was put off until tomorrow after a juror recognised a witness in the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

THE murder of Mary Walsh brings to five the number of women who have suffered a violent death this year in Ireland.

GARDAÍ were last night continuing to question five people in relation to the fatal shooting of a Dublin grandmother in the bedroom of her home earlier this month.

A YOUNG family and a teenage babysitter were subjected to a prolonged period of savage violence yesterday.

The funeral of the 64-year-old woman shot dead in her home in the Tallaght area of Dublin is due to take place later today.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell was urged today to set up a specialist unit to combat gangland killers following the murder of a 64-year-old grandmother in Dublin.

Gardaí are still trying to establish a motive for the killing of a 64-year-old woman in West Dublin.

Police in Dublin are searching for clues as to why a 64-year-old woman was gunned down in her house today.