Two convicted criminals have escaped with suspended sentences for their roles in an event described by Judge Frank O'Donnell as "inherently sinister, suspicious, dark and mysterious".

Angry scenes followed the jailing of a Dublin man in the Central Criminal Court today when relatives of two murder victims lunged at the accused and had to be restrained.

A Central Criminal Court jury retired to a hotel tonight after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.

The prosecution has closed its case in the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Dublin man charged with firearms offences.

A former heroin addict today claimed that he implicated a man on trial for firearms offences as part of a "deal" to get out of the garda station and avoid being charged.

A heroin user has denied giving guns to a Dublin man on trial for firearms offences claiming he never met the accused until the trial began.

A witness in a firearms trial today told the jury that it was not the accused who paid him for a second-hand car later linked to the murder of two young men.

A neighbour of a man charged with firearms offences has said he saw the accused in Ballyfermot on New Year’s Eve 1999, the same night that shots were heard near the Grand Canal in Co Kildare where two bodies were later recovered.