Detectives trying to solve the disappearance of a man two years ago have called into question the motive of a letter writer who claimed he had been murdered.

Gardaí and Crimestoppers have renewed their appeal for information on a man missing for the past two years.

Gardaí are "very concerned" for the wellbeing of a missing 39-year-old man from Wicklow town.

A murder trial has heard a bullet taken from the deceased’s body could not be linked to the gun retrieved near the scene.

A murder trial has heard today that a man was shot in the neck while walking with his girlfriend and two children.

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a 23-year-old accused of murdering a man in Dublin last year.

A man was remanded in custody today after he was charged with murdering a father of two who was shot dead in front of his partner and two children in Dublin in August.

A 22-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Daniel Gaynor in Dublin last August.

A convicted murderer, who escaped from a Wicklow prison six years ago, has been handed over to the governor of Shelton Abbey Prison in Arklow to serve out the remainder of his life sentence.

Gardai said tonight that drugs seized in Dublin yesterday and identified as cocaine has turned out to be heroin.

The Central Criminal Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of an escaped murderer, who has been located by police in London.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a 47-year-old woman and a 17-year-old man following a cocaine seizure in the west of the city.

A man who fired a sawn-off shot gun at a Nigerian man he was hired to klll for a IR£15,000 fee has been given 100 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.