The trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

Two men have gone on trial accused of robbing €2.28m in a tiger kidnapping six years ago in which the family of a cash-in-transit van driver was held hostage by armed men.

The major emergency plan for Dublin has swung into action as heavy rain and flooding has the capital in its grip this evening.

A jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder were sent to a hotel for the night after failing to reach a verdict, at the Central Criminal Court today.

The blood of a 21-year-old Dublin man who was stabbed to death was discovered four inches below a palm print which matched that of the man accused of his murder the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Dublin man accused of murder told gardaí he couldn’t remember where he was on the night of the alleged murder because he was "a very forgetful person", the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A witness at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder told gardaí he saw a man hold up his hands to protect himself as another man attacked him with a knife, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A witness at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder told gardaí he saw a man hold up his hands to protect himself as another man attacked him with a knife, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A jury at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder has been home for the weekend. The six men and six women have so far been deliberating for approximately 11 hours.

A burnt out Nissan Micra was found in the Cookstown Industrial Estate area the morning after an alleged murder in Crumlin, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A witness at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder saw a man in a balaclava stab another man, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Violence has flared close to the Holy Cross School in Ardoyne in Belfast.

Two pipe bombs have exploded in the latest attack in Belfast.

Trouble has flared between nationalists and loyalists on the Crumlin Rd in Belfast.