Gardaí are confident of bringing charges in relation to the fatal stabbing of a machete-wielding youth in a row that spiralled out of control in west Dublin early yesterday morning.

Gardaí have today arrested a man in connection with a fatal knife attack in Dublin.

A man accused of murdering a taxi driver by stabbing him 43 times in front of his girlfriend and young child has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a taxi driver in Blanchardstown last year began its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tonight on day 12 of the trial.

The jury in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a taxi driver in Blanchardstown last year has now heard all prosecution evidence.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that DNA matching a taxi driver who was fatally stabbed in Blanchardstown last year was found on the clothes of a man and a woman accused of murdering him.

A woman accused of murdering a taxi driver last year in Blanchardstown told gardaí that the deceased pointed a gun at her and her boyfriend in a row over drug money.

The jury in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a taxi driver in Blanchardstown last year has heard that the man replied “I’m sorry” when arrested for the offence.

The jury in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a taxi driver who was killed in a frenzied knife attack last year in north Dublin was sent away today in order to allow legal argument in its absence.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that a taxi driver was allegedly stabbed to death in front of his partner and two year old son last year in Blanchardstown.

A mother of four who hid a €24,000 stash of heroin in her bra and was then arrested for two further drugs offences while on bail has been given five and a half years in consecutive sentences.

A long-term heroin addict who was in heavy debt to drugs criminals has been given an 11-year sentence in consecutive terms by Judge Katherine Delahunt for possessing two stashes of heroin within 14 months.

A 22-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a taxi driver in Dublin on Tuesday night.

A man in his twenties is due in court this morning, charged in connection with the death of an off-duty taxi driver in Dublin on Tuesday night.

Gardaí are today looking for a man and woman after a taxi driver was stabbed to death in Dublin.

Gardaí believe the taxi driver stabbed to death last night was chased from his car after a row broke out with a number of people.

A murder probe was launched today after a knife attack on an off-duty taxi driver, gardaí confirmed.

A man who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder, has been jailed for four years after he was caught driving a stolen car and head-butting a garda a week after shooting the 49-year-old man.

The owner of a stolen €80,000 value in-foal mare which was found in a Co Meath field has told a court he handed €6,000 to a man who claimed he could help him recover it from "the scumbags that took it".

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires, and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a year to continue treatment for her compulsive behaviour before being sentenced.

The sentence of a woman described as a "nut and fruit case" after she made a series of false claims to the Gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, and house fires and of being with a reported abandoned baby has been adjourned again pending a psychiatric report.

A Dublin woman, who falsely claimed that a newborn baby was concealed in a Ballymun flat, has been remanded on continuing bail for sentencing pending a psychiatric report.

Gardaí are investigating a shooting incident in the Blanchardstown area of Dublin last night.

A woman who falsely claimed that a newborn baby was concealed in a Ballymun flat has been remanded on continuing bail for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on March 15, 2005.

A Dublin youth charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in Blanchardstown on Halloween night has been remanded on bail pending directions from the DPP and the possibility of further charges.

A Dublin youth was today remanded in custody after he was charged with assault causing serious harm in connection with the death of a man in Blanchardstown on Halloween night.

A TEENAGER was being questioned last night after a father-of-two was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack outside a pub in west Dublin on Hallowe'en night.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to questions a man arrested yesterday in connection with a shooting in the west of the city.

One man was shot in the leg in Blanchardstown in Co Dublin this morning.

Cannabis resin, with a street value of €20,000, was seized in a raid in Dublin overnight.