Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a shot was fired at a house in Cork City

Gardaí believe they have taken most of the “super-strength” heroin linked to two deaths in Cork out of circulation.

Gardaí in Cork have carried out a number of raids on the homes of suspected drug dealers in an attempt to rid Cork City of a batch of unusually pure heroin, after the deaths of two men.

Two men are dead and two more are fighting for their lives in a Cork hospital amid fears that a lethal batch of high-purity heroin has hit the streets.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of three men accused of INLA membership has heard that the INLA planned to kidnap a Cork businessman last year.