A court has heard a Dublin man accused of murdering Daniel McAnaspie punched the teenager in the face in the hours before his disappearance.

A court has heard two men being tried for the murder of 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie each claimed to have witnessed the other man carrying out the stabbing.

A court has heard how a garden shears found during the murder investigation of Daniel McAnaspie was the most likely weapon used to kill him.

The Central Criminal Court will begin hearing evidence today in the trial of murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie.

Two men have pleaded not guilty to the murder of teenager Daniel McAnespie in Dublin.

The father of a Dublin man killed more than six years ago held his dying son in his arms just moments after he had been shot in the back with a shotgun, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 31-year-old man has today pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Blanchardstown man Dara McCormack more than six years ago.

A drug addict who was caught by gardaí after he took a photograph of himself on a phone which he then left behind in the house he had just burgled has been sentenced to seven years with the final three suspended.

A 41-year-old has been granted bail after he was charged in connection with a non-fatal shooting of a man in Blanchardstown in Dublin, last Wednesday.

A man is to appear in court this morning charged in connection with a shooting incident in Blanchardstown on Wednesday.

The first gangland killing of the year has claimed the life of a well-known 36-year-old drug dealer whose brother was murdered three years ago.

Gardaí are questioning a 31-year-old man in relation to a shooting in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his best friend and neighbour in Blanchardstown over five years ago.

The State Pathologist has today told a murder trial that she found 50 gunshot pellet holes in the body of a 22-year-old Dublin man, who was shot near his Blanchardstown home more five years ago.

Several eye-witnesses have told the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering one of his best friends, that they saw their neighbour Dara McCormack on the ground of their Blanchardstown estate, with two men in balaclavas standing over him.

The father of a 22-year-old construction worker who was shot minutes after leaving home for a night out, has told the Central Criminal Court that his son named one of his best friends as his attacker in his dying moments.

The trial of a 30-year-old Dublin man accused of shooting dead his neighbour is due to get underway at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow, after being adjourned earlier in the week when "an issue arose."

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering a young father over five years ago has been instructed to return to the Central Criminal Court on Monday next, after "issues" arose in the case.

A 30 year old Dublin man is due to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court today for murdering a father-of-two more than five years ago.

A post mortem examination is to be carried out on the body of a man after a fatal housefire in West Dublin last night.

A young Dublin man who left a knife embedded in another youth’s back has received a five year sentence with one suspended.

MURDERED teenager Daniel McAnaspie was stabbed at least six times in what gardaí have described as a “desperate act”.

Gardaí have made a direct appeal to the killer or killers of Dublin teenager Daniel Mc Anaspie.

Fears were mounting tonight for the safety of a Dublin teenager who has been missing for almost a fortnight.

A father of one who robbed the shop across the road from his own home in "one of the silliest" crimes to watch on CCTV footage has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Blanchardstown man who burgled five premises in Swords in one night has been given a five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for these and other offences.

A construction worker who told gardaí he found cocaine with a street value of €24,000 "while out walking" has been given a six-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who broke into a house and caused €100,000 damage by setting it on fire while playing with matches has been given a five years sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires, and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a year to continue treatment for her compulsive behaviour before being sentenced.

The sentence of a woman described as a "nut and fruit case" after she made a series of false claims to the Gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, and house fires and of being with a reported abandoned baby has been adjourned again pending a psychiatric report.

A Dublin woman, who falsely claimed that a newborn baby was concealed in a Ballymun flat, has been remanded on continuing bail for sentencing pending a psychiatric report.

A woman who falsely claimed that a newborn baby was concealed in a Ballymun flat has been remanded on continuing bail for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on March 15, 2005.