A company has lost its High Court challenge over the HSE's refusal to enter into a community pharmacy contract (CPC) with it for a pharmacy on Dublin's northside.

Gardaí have renewed an appeal for witnesses and information following the murder of Amanda Carroll last week.

A "soft-touch" drug dealer who was holding cocaine and ecstasy for a criminal because he feared he would be shot has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.