A heroin addict who told gardai she had €4,600 worth of drugs so she could overdose because she had just been diagnosed with a long-term illness has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

A YOUNG man has been charged with firearms offences following the seizure of a loaded handgun at the weekend.

A SUMMIT of community leaders is urgently needed to tackle the scourge of violence in society, the Archbishop of Dublin said last night.

A gunman who blasted a garda sergeant with a shotgun in a cocaine-crazed incident arising from a feud between members of two west Dublin families has been given a 12-year sentence.

Two people escaped uninjured after a gunman opened fire on a house in Dublin, gardaí said today.

Gardaí have launched a manhunt after shots were fired in the early hours of this morning at a house on Mourne Road, Crumlin, Dublin.

Two 16-year-old boys arrested in connection with the shooting of a Garda sergeant last week are to face trial in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a judge ruled today.

Gun attacks on the homes of two prison officers in Northern Ireland were being investigated by police today.

The 20-year-old man stabbed to death in Crumlin in Dublin early this morning has been named as Declan Gavin from Mourne Road in Drimnagh.