A woman accused of helping her friend take her own life told gardaí that another person was with the deceased when she took a lethal dose of barbiturates.

Gardaí are investigating an overnight incident in which up to six shots were fired through the window of a house in west Dublin.

The brother of the Mulhall sisters, who killed their mother’s African boyfriend in March 2005, has been sentenced to two years in prison for robberies he committed while wielding a knife.