UNARMED gardaí foiled a suspected gangland hit after smashing into an assassin’s car, grappling with the hitmen and seizing a loaded revolver.

The jury in the trial of a 28-year-old man accused of murdering Derek Glennon in Mountjoy Prison last year has been discharged following the withdrawal of two jurors.

THE tender documents reveal that the new prison intended to replace Mountjoy, at Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin, will house at least 1,200 inmates — men, women and juveniles — when it opens in 2010.