An animal rights organisation is being criticised for planning to use a human leg in their advertising campaign. They have openly admitted it is "inspired" by the severed leg found in a Dublin recycling facility.

Gardaí have said they believe the victim, who’s dismembered limbs were discovered at a recycling plant in Dublin, suffered a violent death.

Gardaí were last night trying to identify which bin lorry carried the remains of the human body that was found at a recycling plant late on Thursday night.

A member of the State Pathologists Office is at the scene where a human leg was found at a recycling centre in Dublin.

A €30,000 fine imposed on a waste disposal company over the death of a construction worker has been criticised as too lenient.

Phone analysis places the mobile of Joe O'Reilly's co-worker in the vicinity of the Broadstone bus garage on the morning of the murder and is consistent with the account he gave gardaí.

Gardaí in Dublin now say that they are treating the discovery of a man's body in Ballyfermot this morning as suspicious.

The body of a man has been found in Ballyfermot in west Dublin.

A man is being treated in hospital following a shooting incident in Dublin late last night.

A man is recovering in hospital today after being injured in a shooting in Ballyfermot in west Dublin.