Cork hostage stand-off: At one stage, gardaí 'concerned they were all dead'

Latest: An internal family dispute is believed to have triggered a tense four-hour hostage stand-off on the northside of Cork city this morning which resulted in armed gardaí making a forced entry into a house and tasering a man.

Update 4pm, by Eoin English: An internal family dispute is believed to have triggered a tense four-hour hostage stand-off on the northside of Cork city this morning which resulted in armed gardaí making a forced entry into a house and tasering a man.

Two brothers in their 20s were arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment, and their mother and her partner, both in their 50s, were taken to hospital with superficial injuries after gardaí smashed in the front door, and managed to overpower the suspects and bring the incident to a successful conclusion just before 9am.