Two men are due before Limerick District Court this morning charged with having €170,000 worth of heroin.

The driver of the getaway car in the shooting murder of Eddie Ryan Snr in a Limerick hotel was sentenced to 15 years' jail for manslaughter today.

A man who was captured on video camera stabbing his sister's boyfriend to death has been jailed for life in the first ever murder trial to take place outside Dublin.