A man alleged to have laundered money earned through suspected fuel smuggling has had assets of more than £400,000 (€589,000) frozen by the Assets Recovery Agency, it was announced today.

A top republican has been banned from selling his property until detectives complete a probe into an alleged multi-million pound fraud, it emerged today.

ASSETS worth £700,000 (€1.02 million) belonging to two alleged fuel smugglers in south Armagh have been frozen by the Northern High Court.

YOU could say it was a week to remember for Jim Lowe.

A SENIOR health board official, who was doused in petrol and set alight, remained in a critical but stable condition in Cork University Hospital last night.

THIS week’s horrific attack on a senior health board worker, who was doused in petrol and set alight, is not linked to his work with the mental heath services, garda sources revealed last night.

Gardai in Limerick are investigating an attack on a senior officer with the Mid-Western Regional Health Board last night.

Gardai in Limerick are investigating a horrific attack in which a 51-year-old senior health board official was doused with fuel and set alight.