Potential jurors in the trial of a man accused of shooting publican Charlie Chawke should have been excluded if they were supporters of Fianna Fáil, the Court of Criminal Appeal was told today.

A Dublin man’s appeal against his conviction for robbing and shooting publican Charlie Chawke more than six years ago, will be heard in July.

FACING at least five years behind bars, prisoner 55511 was escorted from the courts and driven by prison officers to Mountjoy Jail.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused to grant bail to a Dublin man sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting publican Charlie Chawke during a robbery.

Animal rights activists are being blamed for an attack on a famous circus today.