The prosecution has today closed its case against a man accused of involvement in a €29m drug operation last year.

The trial of a man accused of involvement in a €29m cocaine operation last year has heard he was seen on CCTV handling the drugs.

Artist Robert Ballagh has revealed that thieves took around €10,000 in cash from his home just before Christmas.

An urn containing ashes has been stolen during a burglary in Dublin.

Bernard Brogan is unlikely to make his return from injury against Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday week but the 2010 Footballer of the Year is confident of being fit for league semi-finals, provided Dublin get there.

A drug addict caught with nearly €40,000 worth of heroin and a large haul of stolen property has been given a nine-year sentence.

A 32-year-old Dublin man has appeared in court charged with falsely imprisoning a bank worker and his housemate as part of an alleged tiger raid on an AIB branch last year.

An armed gang got away with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash today after taking a bank worker’s wife hostage in a tiger kidnap.

A 23-year-old man is to appear in court today in connection with a tiger kidnapping in Dublin last Tuesday.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has today criticised bank officials for failing to implement the agreed protocols to ensure that their employees are protected.

Three men were being questioned today in connection with a €200,000 “tiger kidnapping” robbery that sparked a row between gardai and bankers over security protocols.

Bank workers’ representatives claimed today that cashiers and branch staff should not be criticised for handing over cash when their friends or loved ones are taken hostage in a ’tiger’ kidnapping.

A bank clerk took €200,000 from an Allied Irish Bank branch after his friend was taken hostage from their home in a tiger-kidnapping, it was revealed tonight.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a tiger kidnapping.

A WOMAN plunged to her death from a fourth floor balcony at Tallaght Hospital in an apparent suicide, just days after an outcry over the lack of a suicide nurse at the facility.

THE Health Service Executive has rejected claims a young anorexic woman with a history of suicide attempts was recently discharged from Tallaght Hospital without being offered any appropriate community-based supports.

A father-of-three who had nearly 1000 vile and horrific child porn images on his home computer has been jailed for three years.

Five people are being quizzed by gardai about a firearms haul in Tallaght, in Dublin overnight.