Heightened security as Regency Hotel murder trials back in court

An Garda Síochána has stepped up patrols in the wake of last week's security alert ahead of today's sentencing of Patrick Dowdall and Jonathan Dowdall, and the trials of two other men

A floral tribute to David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin shortly after he was killed there in February 2016. Two men are set to be sentenced at the Special Criminal Court on charges related to Mr Byrne's murder. File picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

There will be heightened security across Dublin today as prosecutions in relation to the Regency Hotel murder of David Byrne are expected to take a dramatic turn.

Father and son, Patrick and Jonathan Dowdall, from Cabra, are set to be sentenced after they entered a surprise guilty plea last Wednesday to charges of facilitating a criminal organisation in the murder of Byrne at the north Dublin hotel in February 2016.