Post mortem due on man shot dead in Dublin pub

A post mortem will take place later on the body of a man in his mid 20s who was shot dead in a pub in Dublin last night.

The victim has been named locally as Paul Cullen.

At around ten past seven last night a masked man entered the Cabra House pub on Fassaugh Avenue in Cabra and fired up to six shots at a man in his mid 20s.

Gardai have given a description of the gunman and are asking for anyone with any information to contact them.

It's the fifth fatal gun attack so far this year and is believed to be gangland related.

 

Three arrested in Derry carrying suspicious device

Police believe they have disrupted a major terrorist attack by dissident republicans

Three men have been arrested in the North after officers intercepted a van carrying at least three mortars in Derry.

100 homes have been evacuated.

Security Correspondent in Northern Ireland, Alan Murray, reported that police came under attack when they were evacuating the area.

 

Trial of man accused of murdering Wexford student starts today

Twenty one year old Nicola Furlong was found dead in Japan last May.

Ms. Furlong, from Curracloe, was found unconscious in a hotel in central Tokyo last year - she had been on a night out with a friend at a concert.

19 year old musician Richard Hinds, from Memphis, Tennessee in the US, has admitted strangling the 21 year old but denies killing her intentionally. 

There has already been a judges ruling about whether the case can be heard in a criminal court as the accused was a juvenile under Japanese law when the crime took place. 

Nicola's parents Andrew and Angie and her sister Andrea have flown to Japan for the trial.

The case is expected to last more than a week.

 

Catholic cardinals begin talks today ahead of a conclave to elect the next pope

The Vatican is now expecting 115 "cardinal electors" to participate in the election.

The meetings will set the date for the start of the conclave and help identify candidates to be leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

Vatican watchers say the field for next pope remains wide open, with possible candidates from every corner of the world and from both progressive and traditionalist wings of the Church.

The meetings this week are expected to identify the priorities for the next pope.

US Doctors say a baby girl born with HIV appears to have been cured 

She received a cocktail of drugs which fight the virus within 30 hours of her birth in Mississippi.

The baby's immune system responded well to the medication and by 23 months HIV levels were undetectable.

The child - who's now two and half - has been off medication for a year and has shown no further signs of infection.

Doctor Deborah Persaud says they were so surprised by the results that tests were re-ordered.