Gardaí investigating the shooting of a man in Dublin took DNA and hair samples from two dogs belonging to a man whose car was stolen five months before the shooting, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Gardaí are expecting the Real IRA to “put on a show” at the funeral of murdered dissident Vincent Ryan.

A man has died after an apparent fall from a horse-drawn cart in Co Wicklow last night.

MUCH heat and very little light has been expended on the Government’s decision to close one of our two embassies in Rome (neither of which are in the Vatican).

Irish logistics company Walsh Western International has invested €2.5m in a new premises in Coventry in England to cater for a 40% business volume growth in the first two quarters of 2004.