Gardaí have arrested three men after a shot was fired during a high-speed chase in Co. Kildare last night.

Legal aid has been refused for six individuals allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime gang in cases involving the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

Applications brought by six people allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime organisation to have their legal costs covered by the State in proceedings against the Criminal Assets Bureau have been dismissed by the High Court.

The High Court has been asked to approve legal aid to six individuals who want to oppose claims by CAB that certain assets seized by the Bureau as part of its investigation into the Kinahan crime cartel are the proceeds of crime.

An indoor bar with 20 bottles of Dom Perignon champagne and a sunken bath with a jacuzzi were among the trappings of wealth uncovered during one of the searches on associates of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Some 35 high-powered vehicles, nine Rolex watches, and €30,000 in cash, with a total value of around €1m was seized yesterday in an operation targeting a gang involved in a murderous feud.

Part of the Stradbally Road in Athy, Co Kildare is closed this afternoon due to a fire.

Gardaí in Kildare are appealing for information after an armed robber held up a Rathangan filling station yesterday.

A man has told a Dublin murder trial that he saw two men come and go on a motorbike to his neighbour’s house minutes before and after a man was murdered by a pillion passenger in a city pub.

Three men were charged today over a seizure of herbal cannabis worth about €400,000 in north Dublin on Sunday night.

A female pedestrian was seriously injured this morning when she was struck by a motorcyclist on the Crumlin Road in Dublin, gardaí said.

Four Dublin men, who have become the first to be prosecuted under new anti-gangland legislation, have been sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

A man who called in a bomb scare to a Dublin nightclub causing it to be evacuated because some of his friends had gone there instead of attending his 21st birthday celebrations has to perform 150 hours community service.

A man who caused a bomb scare at Dublin nightclub leading to its evacuation because some of his friends had gone there instead of attending his 21st birthday celebrations is to perform community service.

A 22-year-old man has died and a woman is seriously injured following a car crash in Co Kildare last night.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a hoax bomb underneath a car in the Crumlin area of Dublin last night.

THE Army bomb disposal team was last night called out to examine a suspicious device found in Crumlin in Dublin which was thought to be a pipe bomb.

An army bomb disposal team examined a hoax device placed under a car at Kildare Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12 tonight.

A 26-year-old man is in garda custody following a fatal hit-and-run in Co Kildare last night.

A DOUBLE-DECKER bus ploughed into the front garden of a house yesterday.

A passenger was today forced to control a double decker bus as it swerved across a road and ploughed into the garden wall of a house, an eyewitness said.

Two people have been hospitalised following a bus crash in the Crumlin area of Dublin this morning.

A YOUNG man was shot and seriously injured in Crumlin over the weekend as part of a longstanding feud between two rival Dublin gangs.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a shooting in the Crumlin area last night.

Gardaí in Co Kildare are following a definite line of inquiry following a serious fire in Athy yesterday evening.

GARDAÍ notched up another large heroin haul yesterday with the seizure of three kilos of the drug in Dublin.

A Bus Atha Cliath driver who fatally knocked down a mother of three after his vision was impaired by strong sunlight has been given a six months suspended sentence.

Farmers and landowners have withdrawn co-operation with Kildare County Council over compulsory acquisition of property for the proposed Enfield to Edenderry Road.