A gang who broke into the house of a couple and their three daughters last week allegedly threatened to “shoot the small kids” before fleeing the scene with cash and jewellery, a court has heard.

Seven men with addresses in north Dublin have appeared in court in connection with an aggravated burglary in Co Tipperary last Thursday when a family was “terrorised” by an armed gang.

A man is challenging an insurance company’s refusal to pay out or replace a BMW X5 worth €49,000 which he said was burnt out by vandals a few months after he bought it.

A viable explosive device has been made safe in Dublin this evening.

A young Estonian woman broke down in tears at the Central Criminal Court today as she recalled seeing two strangers drag her boyfriend from his car and kick him to death.

A man and a woman remain in custody this morning in connection with the latest in a series of gangland killings in Dublin this year.

A man and a woman in their mid-20s have been arrested this evening in connection with the latest gangland style killing in the Coolock area of Dublin.

A postmortem examination will be carried out today on the body of a man found shot dead and dumped on open ground.

The body of a man was found today on open ground in north Dublin.

A steel fabricator who spent up to €2,000 a week on drugs has been given an eight-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of a firearm and storing drugs to feed his cocaine and heroin habit.

A man has been convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of the manslaughter through dangerous driving of a Lithuanian truck driver almost two years ago.

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial of a Dublin man accused of manslaughter through dangerous driving causing the death of a Lithuanian truck driver.

A man who took €71,000 from the back an unlocked ATM machine has been given a three years sentence by Judge Patrick McCarten at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Travellers charged with triple attempted murder were acquitted on all charges at the Central Criminal Court today.

Jurors hearing the trial of two men accused of attempting to murder members of a Traveller family will vote in the General Election tomorrow morning before retiring to consider their verdicts.

A jury hearing the trial of two men accused of attempting to murder members of a Traveller family must decide who drove the car into their halting site and who fired the shotgun, a court has heard.

The man accused of trying to kill three members of a Traveller family by firing a sawn off shotgun at them says he was never in their halting site the day Garda allege the shooting happened, a court has heard.

The spokesman for a Traveller family at the centre of a triple attempted murder trial has been asked about his family’s ability to communicate telepathically.

The accused in a triple attempted murder trial told gardaí he was trying to broker a peace deal between two Traveller families feuding over a damaged caravan, a court has heard.

One of the accused in a triple attempted murder trial was trying to broker a peace deal between two Traveller families who were feuding over a damaged caravan, a court has heard today.

The victim of a drive-by shooting in a travellers halting site called the Gardaí and told his wife and children to stay down in their caravan moments before a car drove into the park opening fire, a court has heard.

Traveller families at the centre of an attempted murder trial were fighting over a damaged caravan a court has heard.

Brothers who allegedly fired a sawn off shot gun at a family of Travellers at St Dominic’s Park on January 1, 2005 intended to kill them a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard this morning.

A COURIER who delivered and stored a massive quantity of cannabis worth approximately €12 million has been jailed for eight years by Judge Desmond Hogan.

A courier who delivered and stored €12m worth of cannabis has been jailed for eight years by Judge Desmond Hogan.