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Three Irish men have been arrested on the holiday island of Gran Canaria by police investigating a plot to carry out a contract killing.
The men, whose names have not been released, were detained along with a fourth person, a British woman, in the resort of Puerto Rico in the south of the island.
It is believed the intended victim, a Norwegian national, contacted the authorities to say he had received death threats in relation to a disagreement over property.
The Irish trio are expected to appear before a judge today. Sources quoted by Spain's leading news agency, EFE, say the men are alleged to have been offered €28,000 to kill the man and his partner.
A Spanish police spokesman said last night that all those detained had criminal records in their countries of origin.
Alleged property scam investigated
Gardaí in Dublin are investigating an alleged property scam which saw a prospective tenant hand over a deposit for a house to a man who can no longer be contacted.
A Garda spokesman confirmed a complaint had been received after a deposit, understood to be a four-figure sum, was given to the man for a lease on a house in Tallaght.
It is understood a number of other would-be tenants viewed the property and gardaí have appealed to them to come forward.
Man died after taking heroin
A man who was found collapsed in a toilet cubicle of a popular Dublin city centre cafe, with a friend, minutes after injecting heroin there, died the following day at a Dublin hospital, the inquest into his death has been told.
Latvian national Alexandrs Dorondo (33), Meadowbrook Avenue, Baldoyle, and his friend Andrejs Bogacovs were discovered unconscious in a toilet cubicle by staff at Nude café on Suffolk Street on June 18th, 2006.
The two friends, who had been celebrating Mr Dorondo's birthday earlier that day with a party on the beach, came into the city in the evening to buy drugs.
Mr Dorondo was removed to St James's Hospital where he died the following day. The coroner returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
Polish man dies in road crash
Gardaí were last night trying to contact the family of a Polish man killed in a road crash in Co Limerick yesterday. The victim who is in his 30s was killed when the Mercedes van he was driving careered off the road at the village of Banogue on the main N20 Limerick to Cork road at 6.20am.
Gardaí at Askeaton are appealing for witnesses to contact them.