The judge said the court had difficulty describing what had happened, as words like "dreadful, horrendous and frightening are not sufficient to describe the horror"

Mark Salmon, of Kilbarron Avenue, Kilmore, West Dublin, was originally charged with a total of 16 offences, including directing a criminal organisation, making threats to kill or cause serious injury to several individuals and making demands with menaces for more than €250,000.

McGovern is charged with the murder of Noel Kirwan in 2016 in Clondalkin, Dublin