A jury in the Central Criminal Court was sent to a hotel last night after failing to reach its verdict in a murder trial.
Mr David Thomas (34) of Cloonlara Crescent, Finglas, Dublin, has denied the murder of Mr Eamon O'Reilly (23) of Sandyhill Gardens, Ballymun, in a Finglas pub on January 11th, 1998. He has also denied seven other counts of possession of firearms and ammunition with the intent to endanger life or cause serious injury, and of assaulting two gardai.