Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired at a house in Dublin last night.

A man who was part of a group dressed in boiler suits that attempted to break into the home of a postmistress has been given a six year sentence.

A 32-year-old man consumed a cocktail of drugs before falling to his death from the top of a block of flats in Dublin’s Ballymun, an inquest heard today.

A lone gunman last night fired two shots through the front door and window of a house in Finglas, Dublin.

Gardai in north Dublin are investigating an overnight shooting in the Finglas area.