A YOUNG man killed when a gunman indiscriminately sprayed bullets into a group of friends gathered in a garden “was an innocent bystander who had stopped there for a chat”.

Three Coolock brothers, whose mother reported them to gardaí after she saw them rob a Chinese food delivery man, have been sentenced to a total of 13 years for various crimes, including robberies.

A court today turned down an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of prison sentences given to two Dublin men who were jailed for an intended Continuity IRA pipe bomb attack on the city's northside.

Proceedings against a recent victim of a gangland fatal shooting have been struck out by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Two Dublin men who admitted having a pipe bomb on the city's northside were sentenced to six years imprisonment, with the final three years suspended, by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The sentencing of two Dublin men charged with possession of an explosive device has been adjourned.

GARDAÍ are investigating whether the Continuity IRA carried out a pipe bomb attack on a man in north Dublin on Wednesday evening.

Gardaí were investigating today after three men escaped injury in a gun attack in north Dublin.

Two Dublin men were charged at the Special Criminal Court this evening in connection with the discovery of a pipe bomb under a van in north Dublin yesterday.

A PIPE bomb left under a van outside a house in north Dublin was a sophisticated device capable of causing serious injury or death, if it exploded, gardaí said last night.

Gardaí are linking the discovery of a live pipe bomb underneath a van in north Dublin this morning to dissident republicans.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men in connection with the discovery of a live pipe bomb underneath a van in the Clonshaugh area of north Dublin early this morning.

Bomb disposal experts have defused a live pipe bomb found underneath a van in the Clonshaugh area of north Dublin early this morning.

The mother of a young electronic technician who was fatally stabbed outside a house in Dublin has promised her son’s death will not be in vain.

A 21-year-old Dublin man was today convicted of the manslaughter of a young electronic technician who was randomly stabbed as he stood outside a house in a north Dublin suburb in 2001.

A murder trial jury was sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict in the case of a 21-year-old man accused of murdering another man in Dublin in 2001.

The jury in the trial of a 21 year-old Dublin man on trial for the murder a young computer technician will retire on Monday to consider their verdict.

A young electronic technician who died from a fatal stab wound was "no more than an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time", a prosecuting lawyer told a murder trial jury today.

A witness told a murder trial jury today that a group of people at a house party “panicked” because they thought an angry gang was waiting outside the house.

A man who stabbed a young Dublin computer analyst said he was handed a knife by his friend as he left a party and intended only to defend himself and “put frighteners” on a couple of young men waiting outside for him, a murder trial heard today.