A major illegal fuel laundering plant has been uncovered hidden among bales of straw in a farm shed.

A 23-year-old man who killed another man in an unprovoked attack during which he was dragged under a car after being attacked with a machete, has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court.

A Co Louth man is to be sentenced today for killing a man who was attacked with a machete and dragged along under a car.

A 23-year-old father-of-one has admitted killing a man, who was attacked with a machete before being dragged along the road by a car, following a three-week trial at the Central Criminal Court.

A 23-year-old on trial for murder told gardaí he couldn't explain why there were phone calls between his mobile and that of the man he is accused of killing, during the time the man was dying in hospital.

A jury in the trial of a 23 year-old man accused of murder has heard that a senior investigating garda was "stretching" when he told a central witness during questioning that he could be placed at the scene of the alleged murder.

Defence lawyers for a man on trial for murder, assault and hijack, have argued that the prosecution's main witness has lied in his statements to gardai and in his evidence to the court.

A senior Garda has told a murder trial that the main witness in the case, who told gardaí of an alleged “confession” the accused man made to him, may have been under the impression that he was suspected of involvement.

A Garda forensic expert has told the trial of a man accused of murder, assault and hijacking, that he found a meat cleavers in a burnt out car which was allegedly involved in the events.

The main witness in the case of a man on trial for murder, hijacking and assault has told the jury that he broke his silence on the events, because he wanted the victim's family to “know what he knew”.

The central witness and friend of a man on trial for murder has denied that he himself was present at the alleged murder scene, and that he fabricated a story for the Gardaí to get himself out of trouble.

The Central Criminal Court has heard evidence about a conversation during which a man on trial for murder told his friend that he was out hijacking cars when he “knocked down” a man.

The Central Criminal Court has heard evidence of a series of attempted hijackings and a serious assault in Dundalk town, in the minutes leading up to the alleged murder of Aidan Myers in 2006.

Witnesses in the case of a man on trial for murder, assault and hijacking have described how they saw a man driving a car repeatedly up and down their street, ram it into a parked car and reverse it at speed towards people.

Gardaí in Co Louth have arrested two people in connection with the murder of Aidan Myers near Dundalk.

Gardaí in Co Louth have arrested eight people in connection with the murder of a 37-year-old man in Dundalk almost a year ago.

A man has been shot dead in Dublin in the latest of a series of gangland killings that is piling pressure on the Government.

A TRUCK driver was killed in a freak accident at Dublin Port yesterday morning.