A man who took part in a violent attack on a car containing four children including a toddler has received a six-year jail term with the last 18 months suspended.

Two people escaped injury when shots were fired through a front window.

The Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe a viable explosive device in Finglas in Dublin this morning.

An investigation is underway this morning after a suspect device was found in north Dublin.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a viable improvised explosive device (IED) on Dunsink Lane near St Joseph's Park in Dublin this evening.

A 24-year-old Meath woman will be sentenced next week for helping a killer dispose of the body of a man he had just killed in her home and for cleaning up the crime scene.

A 27-year-old drug addict has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the manslaughter of a drug dealer whose body was found in the boot of a car after he was stabbed to death following a row over drugs.

A drug addict who killed a 28-year-old drug dealer in a botched robbery will be sentenced for his manslaughter later this month.

A man accused of murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car in an isolated Dublin laneway, has been cleared of the murder but has been found guilty of manslaughter.

The jury in the case of a man on trial for murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car, will resume its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning.

A man on trial for murder has told the jury in his case that he started smoking heroin after the death of his baby girl, and was addicted to the drug when he killed 28-year-old David Sharkey.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a 27-year-old man on trial for murder confessed to gardaí that he stabbed a father of one, “stuck” his body in a boot, and was intending on burning the car at a halting site, when he noticed gardaí and ran away.

The father of a man on trial for murdering another man whose body was discovered in the boot of his own car, has told the Central Criminal Court that his son rang him asking for a lift on the night of the killing.

The partner of a man whose body was found in the boot of his own car has told his killer's murder trial of his alleged killer that she became concerned for her boyfriend's safety after another man answered his mobile phone.

A 27-year-old man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering another man whose blood-covered body was found in the boot of a car in a north Dublin laneway last year.

A man was remanded in custody today charged with the murder of a man found dead in the boot of a crashed car.

A woman being held by gardaí in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found in the boot of his car has been released without charge.

SOCIETY’S “detestation” of the crime of burglary has not lessened since times when it attracted the death penalty, a High Court judge said as he refused to stop the trial of an alleged burglar.

A 20-year-old disqualified driver whose out of control car hit a group of girls last New Years Eve pining two of them up against a wall has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

Army bomb disposal experts made safe a suspicious device found at Dunsink Lane, Finglas last night.

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a teenage girl and her mother, who have been charged over a public order disturbance at a Dublin halting site.

A drug addict who robbed an empty box from Securicor staff making a collection in Blanchardstown three years ago has today been given a six-year sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Travellers charged with triple attempted murder were acquitted on all charges at the Central Criminal Court today.

A MAN accidently shot himself in the head when a stolen car he was travelling in went over a speed bump, an inquest heard yesterday.

The spokesman for a Traveller family at the centre of a triple attempted murder trial has been asked about his family’s ability to communicate telepathically.

The victim of a drive-by shooting in a travellers halting site called the Gardaí and told his wife and children to stay down in their caravan moments before a car drove into the park opening fire, a court has heard.

Traveller families at the centre of an attempted murder trial were fighting over a damaged caravan a court has heard.

A man who failed to make tax returns to the Revenue Commissioners has been remanded for sentence next month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE killers of gangland shooting victim Paul Cunningham will be pursued with vigour by the gardaí, Justice Minister Michael McDowell pledged.

Gardaí have stepped up the number of armed patrols and checkpoints in Dublin after weekend violence that left one man dead and two others in hospital.

Gardaí are continuing to question three men following a shooting in Dublin yesterday afternoon in the Dunsink Lane area of Finglas.

A MOTHER and toddler watched in horror as gunmen blasted a young father to death in the bed where the three lay sleeping in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A LINE of ten riot officers stood across Johnny Rodger’s driveway when he opened his door to a loud knock around 6.30am yesterday.

Two of the men arrested during Garda raids at a number of halting sites at Dunsink Lane in Dublin, have been released without charge.

Traveller representatives have criticised the scale of this morning's garda raids on a number of halting sites in the Finglas area of Dublin.

GARDAÍ suspect serious criminals from the Travelling community were behind the partial destruction of a local authority-owned golf course in Dublin.

Travellers tonight condemned the vandalism of a public golf course in Dublin.

Representatives of the Travelling community and the local authorities in north Dublin have reached an agreement in relation to the stand-off over the erection of a massive concrete barrier at Dunsink Lane in Finglas.

A group representing the Travelling community and the Pavee Point centre is to meet with Dublin City and Fingal County Councils at midday to try to find a resolution to the dispute over the closure of an access road in Finglas.

TRAVELLER leader Martin Collins was among three people arrested during protests yesterday over the blocking of an access road to a north Dublin halting site.

Travellers tonight vowed to restart their protest if a controversial 20 tonne concrete barrier in Dublin is not removed.

The assistant director of the Traveller resource centre Pavee Point is one of two people being questioned by gardaí after being arrested during a protest in Dublin.

Travellers are mounting further protests in north Dublin today after the closure of Dunsink Lane in Finglas.

A MURDER investigation was launched last night after a post mortem revealed an inner city Dublin man, whose body was found on Thursday, died from multiple injuries.