The jury in the trial of a man accused of being involved in a tiger kidnapping has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

A grandmother has told a jury that she and a nine-year-old girl were pushed into a car after being kidnapped from her home by armed hooded men.

Two men who attempted an armed robbery of a bookmaker as he travelled back to his office from the Irish Grand National have been jailed for a total of 15 years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.