Two men are due to appear in court later charged in connection with an armed robbery of a shop in Clontarf in Dublin.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously injured in a collision at Clontarf Road in Dublin this morning.

A local Real IRA boss was being questioned last night in relation to yesterday’s gangland murder of veteran republican and criminal Eamon Kelly.

THE elderly mother and brother of slain Irish cardiologist Dr Brian McGovern flew to Boston yesterday to make arrangements for his funeral in America.