A 22-year-old man has appeared in court this morning charged in connection with the murder of Edward O'Connor.

The first gangland killing of the year has claimed the life of a well-known 36-year-old drug dealer whose brother was murdered three years ago.

Four men have been sentenced for their role in an attack on a man in a shopping centre in front of numerous shopkeepers and members of the public.

A drugs mule who attempted to smuggle over €50,000 worth of herbal cannabis into Ireland from Brussels is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next month.

THE neglect of the State and an underfunded childcare system were major contributory factors in the death of murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie, mourners at his funeral mass heard yesterday.

MURDERED teenager Daniel McAnaspie had suffered a lot of pain and sadness in his short life, mourners at his removal heard in Dublin last evening.

THE devastated family of Daniel McAnaspie is to receive his body today, more than three weeks after his battered remains were discovered dumped in a ditch.

A father who agreed to sell more than €10,000 worth of cannabis to try to raise a deposit for a flat so that he could get custody of his daughter has been jailed by Judge Desmond Hogan.

GARDAÍ fear gangland criminal John Daly — who was released from prison on Tuesday — may be targeted by powerful enemies he made while in Portlaoise Prison.

LIZ COOPER visits her son’s grave every day and wonders if he would still be alive today had he got the help he so desperately needed.

A man discovered with his trousers and underwear around his ankles in a toilet in an enclosed nuns' monastery is to get a suspended sentence on very strict conditions from Judge Joseph Matthews.

GARDAÍ are seeking to extradite a man from Britain over an attempted murder which left the victim severely incapacitated.

YOUNGSTERS eagerly came back to their north Dublin school yesterday - weeks ahead of its reopening - to witness an amazing scene.