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A round up of today's other stories in brief...

A round up of today's other stories in brief...

Firm fined over man's poisoning

An engineering company has been fined €20,000 as a result of a young man dying from carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust of a petrol generator installed in a van by the company almost three years ago.

The body of the deceased man, Emmet McGordon, was found in his van in the centre of Dundalk. The generator had been installed in the van to print T-shirts.

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Commercial Body and Engineering Services Limited, of Kylemore Park West, Kylemore Road, Ballyfermot, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to negligence through a director, Carmel Rogers.

Judge McCartan gave the company three months to pay the €20,000 fine.

Sex case man faces 336 charges

A man in his 70s has been remanded on bail after he was charged yesterday with 336 counts of sexual and indecent assault on three boys and a girl during a period in the 1980s and the early 1990s.

The man was brought before Kanturk District Court in Co Cork yesterday where Sgt Brian Harte gave evidence of arrest.

The man made no reply when the 336 charges were put to him after caution, the court heard.

Judge Michael Pattwell remanded the man, who can't be named to protect the identity of the complainants, on bail to appear again at Mallow District Court on November 13th for service of the book of evidence.

Cannabis seized at Rosslare

Customs officers at Rosslare yesterday seized 46.4kgs of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of €324,800.

The drugs were concealed in a Spanish registered vehicle which had arrived on a ferry from Cherbourg in France.

Sniffer dog "Dillion" identified the drugs which were hidden behind the dashboard of the vehicle. A Spanish national in his late 20s has been arrested.

Charged with fatal stabbing

A 27-year-old man who is charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a father of two in Cork was refused bail at Cork District Court yesterday.

Jason Quinlan, of Loughmahon Drive, Mahon is charged with the assault of Brian McKee (24), causing harm at Ballinure Road on August 25th last.

The State objected to a bail application on the grounds that he would not stand trial for the offence and could commit further serious offences while out on bail. The accused was remanded in custody until October 17th.

Two shootings in Limerick estate

A house was shot at in the St Mary's Park estate in Limerick while gardaí were preserving the scene of an earlier shooting on the same street it has emerged, writes Kathryn Hayes.

Yesterday's early morning shootings were among four separate gun attacks, which took place in the city within hours of each other.

Gardaí are probing the possibility that all four incidents are linked and it's believed a well-known criminal gang could be behind the attacks. Nobody was injured in the shootings.