The Regency Hotel murder trial has been adjourned until next week amidst tributes to one of the lead investigators in the case who died suddenly over the weekend at a Dublin garda station.

Latest: The Regency Hotel murder trial will continue after the Special Criminal Court allowed certain evidence to be admitted.

It is understood covert surveillance will be carried out by specialist Gardaí at a boxing event in Citywest this Saturday.

The case against Patrick Hutch, who is accused of murdering David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin almost two years ago, will collapse if a ruling on contested evidence identifying the accused in a photo favours the defence, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The circumstances in which two detectives identified Patrick Hutch as the man dressed as a woman and holding a gun in a photo taken outside the Regency Hotel on the day of a fatal shooting there were "sullied and tainted", the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A detective who looked at a photo that had been taken outside the Regency Hotel in Dublin on the day of a fatal shooting there "immediately recognized" a man dressed as a woman and holding a gun as Patrick Hutch, the Special Criminal Court has heard this morning.

Three assault rifles believed to be used in a shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin have been shown to a murder trial.

A crowd outside the Regency Hotel in Dublin was "extremely hostile" and offered no information to a garda who had arrived on the scene after a fatal shooting there, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin almost two years ago during which one man died was a "resourced, carefully planned, targeted, murderous attack", the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Gardaí are drafting a policing plan to protect family events marking the anniversary this Sunday of the murder of Kinahan cartel lieutenant David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.

Gardaí are fearing “some form of spectacular” from both sides of the Kinahan-Hutch feud as the anniversary of the Regency Hotel attack approaches next week, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

A man alleged to have played a central part in the shooting dead of a man at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin is to fight extradition from Northern Ireland to the Republic.

Gardaí have been given a final extension to the time they can hold a man for questioning as part of the investigation into David Byrne’s murder.

Gardaí have arrested a fourth man in connection with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.

Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting at the Regency Hotel in February have arrested a man in his 20s.

Gardaí are monitoring an estimated 80 members of rival feuding gangs as they brace themselves for two funerals next week.

The new armed response unit for Dublin, announced as part of a government package to fight gangland feuding, is not expected to be up and running for at least five to six months.

Disturbing eye-witness footage of the scenes just moments after David Byrne was shot dead at the Regency Hotel last Friday have emerged, showing the assassins making their getaway and what happened before gardai arrived.

Gardaí are operating “in-your-face policing” at the homes of more than 40 criminals linked to the cartel blamed for Monday’s gangland murder of Eddie Hutch in Dublin’s north inner city.

As expected, the brutal murder of Dublin taxi-driver and sometime criminal Eddie Hutch at his Ballybough home on Monday brought law and order on to centre stage of this general election campaign, writes Daniel McConnell

Disturbing eye-witness footage of the scenes just moments after David Byrne was shot dead at the Regency Hotel last Friday have emerged, showing the assassins making their getaway and what happened before gardai arrived.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan has been forced to defend her organised crime units having no intelligence that a boxing weigh-in would be targeted by a gangland hit squad.

The Government has today agreed to spend an extra €5m to fund garda overtime.

Six days before the horrific attack at the Regency Hotel, it was reported that senior criminals had flown to Dublin to attend boxing events.

Micheál Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, has described as “extraordinary” the calls from Gerry Adams for witness protection schemes for jurors to replace the Special Criminal Court.

Reports that a dissident group claimed responsibility for last Friday’s military-style assault at a Dublin hotel have been greeted with a mixture of uncertainty, scepticism, and concern.

Gardaí said today that they are keeping an open mind after dissident republican terrorists claimed they murdered a man at a Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match.

Gerry Adams today described the recent fatal gun attack at the Regency Hotel as “an outrage”.

Latest:Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that those behind Friday's killing of David Byrne must be brought to Justice.

It is being reported that dissident republicans have claimed the shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on Friday.

Gardaí believe the main target in Friday’s military-style attack at a north Dublin hotel managed to escape by jumping out a window with his foreign bodyguard.

Our politicians have all failed us and have done nothing in 20 years to tackle the rise of criminal gangs, writes Jimmy Guerin, brother of murdered journalist Veronica

Detectives believe that at least six men, including some who were dressed in women’s clothes and Swat team uniforms, were involved in a deadly shooting at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin.

Gardaí say they are aware of speculation about a retaliatory attack after 32-year-old David Byrne was shot in a Dublin hotel yesterday.

Gangland outrages reached terrifying new heights yesterday when four armed men — two dressed as gardaí and one dressed as a woman — shot dead one man and seriously injured two others at a Dublin hotel, in front of adults and children.

LATEST: Gardaí believe that at least four people were involved in today's shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.

Operating profits at the firm that operates the Regency Hotel in Dublin more than doubled, last year, to €1m.