Gardaí investigating the shooting of a man in Dublin took DNA and hair samples from two dogs belonging to a man whose car was stolen five months before the shooting, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A BANK has been allowed to chase a Co Kildare man for a €10 million debt by dropping a letter in the post.

Six men were arrested today after a lorry packed with plasma televisions worth around €3m was stopped by gardaí targeting organised crime.

HOW very clever of Environment Minister Dick Roche to confine the debate about water quality to Lough Corrib when he could have mentioned loughs Sheelin, Ennell, Derg, Conn, Cullin, Currane, Carragh, Lein, Ree, Curramore or even the great Mask.