A drug dealer-turned State witness in a murder trial has denied being a Garda informer for several years before the Dublin killing.

The chief prosecution witness in a Dublin murder trial has agreed that his identification of one of the accused as the getaway driver was based on seeing the back of his head.

A man involved in planning a murder in Dublin more than two years ago was granted immunity from prosecution after he gave statements against four other men.

Four Dublin men have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a father-of-three in a city pub two years ago.

A credit controller who was caught with 11 video files of child pornography that he had downloaded out of "a morbid curiosity" has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A mother who is serving a ten-year sentence has forfeited €60,000 to the State as the proceeds of drug dealing.

A mother who was caught with cannabis resin valued almost €400,000 has been jailed for 10 years after Judge Frank O’Donnell said he could not find any circumstance that would justify imposing a lesser sentence.

A man who drove a car into a taxi driver who had acted as a "Good Samaritan" by trying to save a colleague from an assault, has received a two year suspended sentence and been given 240 hours community service.

Gardai have named the taxi driver killed earlier today in a collision in Dublin.