A young man who absconded from an open prison and lived "in plain sight" for more than four years before re-arrest has won Supreme Court declarations that his re-arrest and subsequent detention to serve out the rest of his 16-month sentence were unlawful.

A Dublin man accused of possessing almost €3m worth of drugs and an assault rifle told Gardaí that he and his brother, who was caught with 15 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, lived "separate lives" and were like "chalk and cheese".

Gardaí have seized drugs worth nearly €600,000 in the Tallaght area of Dublin.

Latest: Gardaí have launched a murder investigation after the body of a man was found at Butler Park off the Cheeverstown Road in Tallaght earlier today.

Nicole Reddington has been located safe and well.

“To see your son screaming in pain, not knowing what’ll happen to him, it was just… I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

Gardaí have seized around €370,000 worth of drugs in a raid on a house in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí in Tallaght have arrested two women, both in their 30s, this morning in connection with the fatal stabbing of Reece Cullen.

Latest: The 28-year-old man shot dead in CityWest in Dublin last night has been named as John Gibson.

Gardaí have arrested two men following the hijacking of a vehicle in south Dublin on June 15.

A 71-year-old man charged with the false imprisonment of Joan Burton during a water charges protest in Jobstown told gardaí he had joined the protest while in the area getting petrol.

Gardaí have arrested a young male in relation to the fatal stabbing of a teenager in Dublin on Thursday afternoon.

A 17-year-old boy became the first homicide victim of the year after a fatal stabbing in broad daylight at a Dublin housing estate yesterday.

A man has died in a road accident in Tallaght, Dublin last night.

There has been a collision between a Luas and a car in Tallaght.

More than €1m worth of cars and parts have been seized from a yard in West Cork. The discovery was made as part of the investigation into the theft of high-end vehicles across a number of counties and in the North.

Gardaí and Revenue Custom Services have seized a large amount of stolen car parts in a number of containers at a storage yard in City West, in Dublin.

Gardaí have recovered 11 vehicles and made seven arrests in three operations over two days targeting organised burglary gangs.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man following a 14-hour armed stand-off in Tallaght yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing to quiz three men over a drug seizure in Tallaght, Dublin, on Friday.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing a missing teenager from Rathfarnham in Dublin.

Two men have been arrested after a handgun was seized in Dublin last night.

Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Dublin last Tuesday night have renewed their appeal for information.

A 44-year-old man has been arrested in Dublin following the seizure of drugs worth €460,000.

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into Dissident Republican activity in Dublin.

Four people have been arrested in connection with a cash-in-transit robbery in Tallaght last year.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to two fatal shootings in Dublin last night.

Gardaí are hunting a crime gang who were interrupted by officers while dumping the body of a man wearing a bullet-proof vest in rural Dublin at the weekend.

Gardaí at Tallaght in Dublin are investigating a fatal road accident which occurred at 2.45pm this afternoon.

Two murder investigations are under way following a fatal beating of a dissident republican in Kildare and the death of a gangland figure in Dublin.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a shooting in Dublin last night.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Dublin over 11 years ago.

Gardaí in Tallaght have arrested a male in his 20s and recovered a suspect device this evening.

Gardaí are investigating reports of shots being fired in the Tallaght area of Dublin last night.

Gardaí in Dublin are today appealing for witnesses to a serious assault in Tallaght at around 8pm last night.

A 32-year-old Dublin man has appeared in court charged with falsely imprisoning a bank worker and his housemate as part of an alleged tiger raid on an AIB branch last year.

A man has been arrested in connection with a drugs and weapon seizure in Dublin.

Officers from the Garda National Drugs Unit and the Tallaght Drugs Unit discovered a cocaine mixing factory in a house in Tallaght overnight.

THE Garda investigation into the shooting of Robert Delany in Dublin almost two years ago reached a climax yesterday with the arrest of a senior IRA man and two of his sons.

A man in his thirties has been arrested after Gardaí discovered a firearm and ammunition during a planned search of a house in Tallaght.

Gardaí have today released a man they were questioning in connection with a Dublin murder investigation.

A 26-year-old man was arrested today over the murder of a young father-of-one whose body was found in the Dublin mountains.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in connection with the false imprisonment and abduction of a bank official in Tallaght last month.

A man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for dousing himself in petrol and threatening to set himself alight in Tallaght garda station last year.