A garda sergeant has told the High Court she had to pepper spray a man who is suing for wrongful arrest because he was shouting aggressively and was intimidating.

Gerald Jennings, a property manager from Carlow Town, claims he was arrested because gardaí wrongly believed he had carried out a savage street assault on his fiancée, beautician Martha Kowalczyk.

A man claims he was wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned after gardaí wrongly suspected he carried out a savage random street attack on his fiancée.

A shotgun found at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide was legally held by the man suspected of carrying out the shootings.

A shotgun has been discovered at the scene of two suspicious deaths at a B&B in Carlow today.