The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his friend with a shotgun has been discharged.

A Dublin man shot his friend with a sawn off shotgun outside a southside suburban shopping centre and then threw him from his car as a favour for drugs dealers, a court heard today.

A man in his early 20s remains in a critical condition in hospital this morning after being shot in the head in a gangland-style assassination attempt in south Dublin yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí this afternoon arrested two men in connection with a shooting in south Dublin.