The victim in a mobile phone mugging turned the tables on his attacker by tackling the man to the ground and taking his phone instead, a court has heard.

The body of a murdered German tourist was so deeply hidden in dense undergrowth the Garda who discovered it thought it was a roll of old kitchen lino dumped in the bushes, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.

The search for missing Carlow schoolgirl, Amanda Shine, has ended with the arrest of a man in Dublin.