Cocaine with an estimated street value of €40,000 was seized in Co Tipperary on Thursday.

Gardaí have made what is thought to be the second largest haul of heroin in an operation targeting an Irish-organised crime gang with international connections.

Gardaí from Clondalkin have seized heroin and cocaine with an estimated value of €4.9m, pending analysis.

THE colleague Joe O’Reilly told gardaí was his main alibi for the morning his wife was murdered was miles away from him during a one-hour period critical to the investigation, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A TELECOMS expert has told the Central Criminal Court certain mobile phone records were not consistent with accounts Joe O’Reilly gave to gardaí about his movements on the day of his wife’s murder.