Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney, who were convicted for acting as getaway drivers for the gang that carried out the notorious Regency murder, will also be sentenced on Friday morning

The Garda watchdog was called in after the convicted Hutch criminal in the separate case was in a road traffic accident in Dublin involving a member of the public

GRA conference

A 'crisis of confidence' has emerged following the resignation of a senior investigator at Gsoc, who claimed he told colleagues he had attended a party with Gerard “The Monk” Hutch the night he walked free from court

Usually, when a defendant beats the rap as he did, the general reaction is 'he got off' — in Hutch’s case, most who observed the trial came to the conclusion that anything but a ‘not guilty' verdict would have been unjust

Irish Examiner reporter Sean Murray covered the trial that concluded earlier this week.

Fine Gael TDs question who had convinced Dowdall to remain in Sinn Féin when he spoke of leaving in 2014 with 'many serious questions unanswered' 

'Clear answers' also needed on whether Sinn Féin will support renewal of the Special Criminal Court

Claims that the party had 'more than an inkling' about the former councillor’s background

Fine Gael was out of the stalls on Tuesday with a press release saying that Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin have further questions to answer. They are not the only ones, writes Sean Murray

Judge expresses significant concerns over star State witness Jonathan Dowdall’s 'reliability and his relationship with the truth'

All eyes were on Ms Justice Tara Burns and the Special Criminal Court on Monday as the verdict in the trial of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch was read out

Sinn Féin leader's comments come as The Monk has been found not guilty of the murder of David Byrne, the Kinahan gang member who was shot dead at the Regency Hotel seven years ago

It comes as Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch has been found not guilty of the murder of David Byrne, the Kinahan gang member who was shot dead at the Regency Hotel seven years ago

The non-jury court found that it could not rely on the evidence of former Sinn Féin councillor and convicted torturer Jonathan Dowdall

With plenty of evidence in the form of eyewitness statements, audio recordings, CCTV footage, and phone records heard and seen over 52 days, Sean Murray recaps on the trial of the fatal attack as we approach its seventh anniversary

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has said she would have had nothing to do with Jonathan Dowdall had she known what was to transpire.

The judges said the court would notify parties if the judgment for the three accused is available before April 17 next

The prosecution told the court the covert recordings show Mr Hutch had authority over the AK-47 rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack

The judge today ruled licence plate evidence against Paul Murphy as inadmissible

The State hopes to be in a position to close the prosecution's case on Tuesday

A voice on the video says: "There they are, there they are in the van, they're not cops, they're not cops."

The court also ruled that CCTV footage concerning the movement of a taxi associated with Paul Murphy can be admitted as evidence against him

The court heard that Jonathan Dowdall's assessment for witness protection was "ongoing"

The court had yesterday heard that "a curious development" had arisen which resulted in the "generation of a document" that primarily concerned Gerry Hutch

The court heard that the trial would conclude in two weeks "subject to matters falling out of the sky"

Mr Hutch's defence counsel put it to Dowdall that he dismissed his conversations with Gerard Hutch in the audio recording as "simply being talk"

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, has denied he used the promise of bomb timers as "a bargaining tool" to get dissident republicans to mediate in the ...

Former Sinn Féin councillor appealing four-year sentence on the grounds of severity 

'It's lies, it's rubbish talk trying to impress someone, there's nothing to it,' said Dowdall

Mr Dowdall’s time in the witness box won’t be drawing to a close just yet.

The former Sinn Fein councillor also denied talking on the audio tapes about getting "people whacked" and planting bombs

"The touch paper has lit," she said before she was heckled from the Government benches by Fine Gael TD Michael Creed, who shouted "you mean the Hutch paper", a comment subsequently repeated by other TDs

Threat to Dowdall 'on a whole new level', court hears, as he becomes defensive under cross-examination

Party leader says she did not know Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch was present at a fundraising event she attended in 2014

Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA Former Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall has said he told a “lie out of necessity” during garda interviews in 2016 on what he knew about the Regency shooting.

Gerry Hutch's defence lawyer told the judge today that he may cross-examine Jonathan Dowdall until Wednesday next week

The ex-Sinn Féin councillor also said he never knew that Patsy Hutch was involved in crime

A fraught, tense day of cross-examination for State's witness Jonathan Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin councillor said the Hutches were 'willing to throw someone else under the bus' for the Regency Hotel murder

Hutch trial hears how Dowdall learned waterboarding from films, and that he'd fixed a plug for an IRA man on his trip north

Jonathan Dowdall also told the court that Gerard Hutch lied to him during a conversation that was secretly recorded

The former Sinn Féin councillor told the court, on his first day of giving evidence in the trial, that The Monk told him he was part of the team that carried out the Regency attack.

The Regency Hotel murder trial also heard that Gerry Hutch said he "wasn't happy" about Mr Byrne being killed