Dutch national loses detention challenge

A man arrested in a Dublin apartment which gardaí believed to be linked to the Kinahan organised crime gang has lost a High Court challenge to the legality of his detention following a refusal of bail.

Just hours before Mr Justice Seamus Noonan refused the challenge by Naoufal Fassih, aged 35, a Dutch national originally from Morocco, his fresh application for bail was refused by the district court.

Mr Justice Noonan rejected arguments that Mr Fassih was not given a fair hearing before being refused bail, for the first time, by the district court on April 15.