Gang figure Brian Rattigan is seeking a Supreme Court appeal against his conviction for the murder of Declan Gavin outside an Abrakebabra takeaway in Dublin, 12 years ago.

Convicted murderer Brian Rattigan has received a 17-year jail sentence for dealing €1m worth of heroin from his cell in Portlaoise prison.

Convicted murderer Brian Rattigan is to be sentenced at the Special Criminal Court for the possession and supply of €1m worth of heroin.

Convicted murderer Brian Rattigan has become the first person in the State to be found guilty of drug dealing from behind bars.

A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering another teenager, after luring him into a ‘fatal trap’ two years ago.

A 19-year-old is to serve a life sentence for murdering another teenager, who he stabbed to death in Dublin two years ago.

From his cell in Portlaoise Prison, Dublin criminal Brian Rattigan directed a gang operating a drugs business, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described the fatal shooting of a Garda detective in Co Louth as "cold-blooded violence", while Justice Minister Alan Shatter called it a "callous and barbaric event" .

A Garda detective has been shot dead tonight during a botched hold-up in Dundalk, Co Louth.

A multiple stab victim stopped breathing within seconds of emergency services arriving at the scene, a Dublin murder trial has heard.

A 19-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court today, accused of stabbing a teenager to death in Inchicore.

A man who started a fire in an office at the Chief State Solicitors Office in 2005 for no apparent reason has been given a three-year sentence.

A date for the trial of Dublin man Brian Rattigan, who is charged with the possession of heroin and having mobile phones in Portlaoise Prison, may be decided upon next week.

Dublin man Brian Rattigan appeared at the Special Criminal Court today on charges of having mobile phones in Portlaoise Prison and possession of heroin.

A Drimnagh man is to have his trial take place before the Special Criminal Court after the Director of Public Prosecutions stated that ordinary courts are “inadequate” to deal with it.

An inmate at Portlaoise Prison has appeared in court charged with possessing €1m worth of heroin in Dublin and with the possession of two mobile phones in jail.

A jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of a knife murder outside Abrakebabra in Crumlin eight years ago will resume its deliberations this morning.

The jury has been discharged ahead of the opening of the trial of a 28-year-old Dublin man charged with a murder in the capital eight years ago.

A "hardworking family man" and cocaine addict who had his three-year-old son in the car with him when caught with a cache of the drug valued over €564,000 has been jailed for ten years by Judge Patricia Ryan.

August 25, 2001: Declan Gavin, 20, from Drimnagh, was fatally stabbed outside Crumlin Shopping Centre.

A man who drove a car into a taxi driver who had acted as a "Good Samaritan" by trying to save a colleague from an assault, has received a two year suspended sentence and been given 240 hours community service.

A man who fired five times at a patrol car with a shotgun before pointing it directly at a plain clothes garda has been jailed for four years.

GARDAÍ dealt a major blow yesterday to a drugs gang involved in a vicious feud that has resulted in at least two murders and several attempted murders.

An 18-year-old man who was shot at point blank range yards from his Dublin home died from his injuries in hospital today, gardai said.

A man was in intensive care tonight with a bullet lodged in his brain after what police believe was a gangland execution bid.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital this morning after being shot in the head in the Drimnagh area of south Dublin. The incident happened just after 2am on Cooley Road.