A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Bail refused to Limerick man in drugs case
A Limerick man charged in connection with a drugs and firearms haul last month has been refused bail after gardaí claimed he was a flight risk.
Heroin and cocaine worth more than €1 million and a number of high-powered weapons and ammunition were seized by gardaí following raids in Limerick city on June 29th.
Aidan Radmall (35), Clonile, Old Cratloe Road, Limerick, is facing 11 charges arising from the seizures, five of which are drugs related and six of which relate to possession of ammunition and firearms.
At Limerick District Court yesterday, Judge Tom O'Donnell refused bail saying he too had concerns about the risk of flight and remanded Mr Radmall in custody until July 27th.
Victim's sister tells of 'threat'
The sister of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death by her husband with a lump hammer has said that during an argument with him, he said he was going to kill her and drink her blood.
She said Goodwill Udechukwu told her he drank blood in Nigeria.
Nicola Curtis was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Mr Udechukwu (32), Royal Canal Bank, Phibsboro, who denies the murder of his wife Natasha Gray (25) at the same address on February 18th, 2003.
The body of the mother- of-two was found in a baby's cot after the prosecution say she was attacked with a lump hammer.
Ms Curtis told Pieter Le Vert, defending, that Mr Udehukwu was "a liar, a thief and a serial killer". When Mr Le Vert put it to her that her sister had married him anyway, she replied: "She always planned to run away but she never wanted to leave her children."
She had warned her sister that one day they would find her dead. She had had a number of arguments with Mr Udechukwu and said: "One day he say he going to kill me and drink the blood. He told me from his mouth he drank blood in Nigeria. That's why I said he's a serial killer."
Mr Le Vert then put it to her that she had not given this "vivid detail" to gardaí during 11 interviews between the day her sister was killed and April 21st, 2003. Asked if anyone else in the house could have overheard this comment, she said: "I don't know, you can ask them."
The trial continues.
Driver fined for overloaded truck
A driver whose truck was overloaded by 15 tonnes was convicted and fined €3,000 in Kilmainham District Court. Garda Jerry Goldrick from the Garda Traffic Corps told Judge Aingeal Ní Chondúin that the trailer which David Corcoran's truck had been pulling had been so overloaded that each tyre on the trailer was deflated.
Corcoran (35), Ardmore Drive, Artane, pleaded guilty to the offence at the Naas Road, Clondalkin, on March 3rd, 2005.
Supreme Court tribute to crier
Ms Justice Fidelma Macken of the Supreme Court has paid tribute to Aidan Byrne, who has retired after many years of service as her crier.
In the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday, the judge said she wanted to thank Mr Byrne, who started as her crier when she was appointed to the High Court in 1998. He had been a wonderful crier and an extremely good friend and she wished him well in his retirement.