Two store detectives who were fired for allegedly using too much force in two arrests have been awarded over €70,000 in total for unfair dismissal.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty to possession of a submachine gun and ammunition at the Special Criminal Court.

A cocaine addict who sold the drug to undercover gardaí in the city centre has been given a two years sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE nine-year-old daughter of a man murdered in the bedroom of his home opened the door to the killer, who pushed past her, rushed up the stairs and shot dead the father-of-four.

Gardaí were tonight investigating links to a drugs feud after a lone gunman cycled to a house in west Dublin and shot dead a father-of-four.