Murder victim Alan Ryan is being laid to rest this morning in North Dublin.

Gardaí have mounted a series of armed checkpoints across the north side of Dublin city following the shooting dead of Alan Ryan yesterday.

One of the men being questioned by Gardaí investigating dissident republican activity and organised crime in north Dublin has been released without charge.

A YOUNG man killed when a gunman indiscriminately sprayed bullets into a group of friends gathered in a garden “was an innocent bystander who had stopped there for a chat”.

ABOVE the giddy jingling of New Year’s bells rose the noisy jangle of newborn howls as maternity hospitals around the country kick-started the business of delivering babies in 2008.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for help in finding a 60-year-old woman who has been missing for three days.

A “human hand” found in a bag of coal by a man in Co Cavan is to be examined by forensic detectives.

A man whose brother was shot dead by his own INLA associates a year ago has been further remanded in custody for sentence on a charge of conspiring to threaten a factory forman.