A man jailed for life for the murder of a French musician and juggler in Bray seven years ago has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed.

A garda has told a murder trial jury that a knife was missing from a knife block in the home of a Dublin man accused of murdering a 26-year-old man and stabbing a professional boxer.

The defence opened and closed its case yesterday morning on the 39th day of Graham Dwyer’s murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.

A man remains in Garda custody this morning, in connection with a fatal stabbing in south County Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin investigating a fatal stabbing there this morning have arrested a man.

A 17-year-old girl has been spared a custodial sentence for two violent robberies, having a baseball bat as a weapon and assaulting a Garda sergeant.

A MAN died after consuming the head shop drug MDPV, which has a similar effect to cocaine, but is 20 to 30 times more potent.

A man has been arrested after the armed robbery of a Dublin petrol station in which staff were threatened with a samurai sword and a dagger.

Senior Garda detectives have told the Special Criminal Court that a man on trial for membership of the IRA had been under surveillance for several hours before his arrest.

A young Belfast man told detectives he was in Dublin to meet someone about “finance and accommodation”, after his arrest at a Clondalkin apartment on suspicion of unlawfully possessing bomb-making material, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

A sixth person was arrested today in connection with the killing of a French man at an apartment last week.

GARDAÍ smashed a sophisticated bomb-making factory operated by a terrorist organisation in west Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí have released a 33-year-old man arrested following a fatal hit-and-run incident in Co Wicklow yesterday evening.

A man is in custody tonight after a pensioner was killed in a hit-and-run.

A YOUNG woman thought she was going to be raped and choked to death during a five-hour ordeal by a man who said he had come close to killing someone previously.

Five men arrested during a foiled armed raid on a bookmakers remain in Garda custody tonight.

Up to 600 local residents are protesting in south Co Dublin tonight over a controversial mobile phone mast.

Two men were fighting for their lives in hospital today following separate stabbing and shooting incidents in Dublin.

A MAN brandishing three carving knives threatened officers in the public office of a garda station.

THREE people were brought to court yesterday in connection with three separate assaults on gardaí in Dublin.

Four gardaí were hospitalised early this morning following two separate incidents in the Shankill and Summerhill areas of Dublin.

One of the three teenagers arrested in connection with a serious assault on another youth in Co Dublin early this morning, has been released.

Gardai in Dublin have arrested two men found in possession of a handgun.

Gardai are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing a missing teenager after 15-year-old Dean Conlon-Hunt was reported missing since yesterday.