Two Sinn Féin members have occupied a petrol station in Dublin in protest at the jailing of five gas pipeline protesters.

A ROOKIE garda had a narrow escape when a gunman fired at him from point blank range only for the bullet to hit the garda’s torch and deflect into his hand.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that gardaí showed him a photograph of a man two months before he made an identification at a formal parade in a Cork garda station.

The survey has found that the average price of a litre of petrol at 98.8c had fallen by over one cent, when compared with the ODCA survey of 9 to12 August where the average price was 99.9c.

Two masked men have escaped with a six-figure sum of money following an armed raid on a security van in Swords, Co Dublin.