When he was released without charge the following morning, the money was missing.

A meat factory worker told gardai that he ‘probably’ got the knife that he used on the factory’s ‘kill floor’ from his kitchen before using it to kill his poker opponent at their Cavan home.

Huge amounts of cash could be stashed away as part of the IRA’s money laundering operation, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy said today.

A 20-year-old Cork man has been acquitted of the murder of a 46-year-old woman during a break in at her flat in Cork city centre.