The Special Criminal Court has fixed a date next January for the retrial of Belfast man Gerard Mackin for the murder of a taxi driver in Belfast in 2007.

The Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin today quashed the conviction of the only person ever convicted by a Dublin court for a murder in the North.

The trial of a Belfast man at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for the murder of a taxi driver in Belfast will hear closing speeches from the prosecution and defence tomorrow.

A man charged with a murder allegedly linked to a fall-out involving dissident republicans was jeered and heckled as he was led from court today.