A jobless lorry driver yesterday failed in a €60,000 damages claim for personal injuries arising from a road traffic crash less than an hour after he had settled a similar road traffic injury claim against his wife.

A man found with a Glock pistol in his sock and a shotgun hidden behind a toilet in his home has been sentenced to nine years by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

There was a day of legal argument at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder at the Central Criminal Court today.

The trial of a Dublin man charged with murder in the capital eight years ago opened in the Central Criminal Court today.

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.