A cluster of girls jumped around a uniformed garda. “We were on the telly,” they all shouted together and bounced away, running up to the tape cordoning off the latest gangland murder.

A heroin addict has been jailed for attempting to have sex with a drunken 14-year-old girl in Dublin city centre.

The Special Criminal Court has set a date in April next year to hear the trial of a Limerick woman, charged with murdering a father of two.

A Limerick woman who faces charges of murdering a father of two in Dublin last year and IRA membership appeared at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The state has been given more time to complete a book of evidence in the case of a Limerick woman accused of IRA membership and the murder a father-of-two in west Dublin in November.

The State has been given more time to complete a book of evidence in the case of a Limerick woman accused of IRA membership and the murder a father-of-two in west Dublin in November.

An IRA membership charge has been brought against a Limerick woman accused of murdering a father-of-two in west Dublin in November.

Additional firearms charges have been brought against a Limerick woman accused of murdering a father-of-two in west Dublin in November.

A man in his forties has been released from custody after being arrested in connection with the murder of David Darcy in Dublin last year.

A judge has recommended that a Limerick woman accused of murdering a father-of-two, who was shot dead in west Dublin last month, is to be held at a prison closer to her family.

A Co Limerick woman has been charged with the murder of a man who was shot dead outside his west Dublin home last month.

A 49-year-old woman is due in court this evening in connection with the shooting dead of a man in his 30s in Dublin last month.

Detectives have described the gangland-style execution today of a father-of-two on his way to work as highly unusual.

A technical examination is being carried out at the scene of a fatal shooting in West Dublin this morning.

A man has been shot dead in Cherry Orchard in Dublin.

A young Dublin man has been jailed for eight years for possessing €137,000 of heroin and cocaine.

A 17-year-old boy arrested regarding a high speed car chase where he allegedly forced a Garda patrol car and a taxi-driver off a road was today served with a book of evidence and remanded in custody pending trial.

A 16-year-old boy was tracked down by the garda helicopter after he tried to steal a car, a court has heard.

BOHEMIANS Football Club player, Dessie Byrne, has been accused of assaulting a Cork City supporter during a match between the two clubs in Turner’s Cross last year.

One man is in a critical condition in Beaumont Hospital and another is being treated at St James’ Hospital after a stolen taxi crashed in Ballyfermot this morning.

The daughter of a 52-year-old woman who died in a fire sobbed tonight as she told how she rang her mother as she was trapped in the burning house.

A teenager who took part in an attempted car theft which was linked to a murder, was today given a suspended sentence at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A surgeon told a murder trial today that two wounds found in the deceased’s heart during autopsy, presumed to be caused by a stabbing, were actually caused by him and a colleague.

"I think about it all the time," a 13-year-old girl told the Central Criminal Court today, referring to the day her stepfather was stabbed to death in front of her.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard that a 41-year-old man was stabbed to death in his front drive in Ballyfermot in Dublin by a youth who had broken into his car.

A youth, who is awaiting sentence for an attempted car theft which led to the death of a man, had his bail revoked today.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the murder of a man in his early 40s in the Ballyfermot area of the city yesterday evening.

A 20-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a father-of-five in front of his children at his Ballyfermot home.

LIFE has become cheap in Ireland — so cheap that a father of five young children was killed for attempting to stop thieves stealing his car.

A man has been arrested in connection with last night's fatal stabbing in Ballyfermot.

A murder investigation is underway this morning after a man died in the early hours of today following an attack in Ballyfermot, Dublin last night.

A Dublin man accused of shooting a pregnant woman during a botched murder attempt has absconded from his trial at the Central Criminal Court.