In 1882 the Ma’amtrasna murders, the brutal killing of several members of the Joyce family in rural Galway, caused outrage in Irish society. It has since become one of the most notorious homicides in Irish history. However a few years later Cork was rocked by an equally heinous case that has been totally forgotten, writes Fin Dwyer.

A teenage boy has admitted murdering 20-year-old college student Cameron Blair in Co. Cork earlier this year.

A man is due in court later this morning in connection with the murder of a man in Kilkenny in 2006.

A Central Criminal Court jury has convicted a 22-year-old woman of disguising herself as her dead grandmother, who had been bludgeoned to death by her mother's partner, in order to conceal her murder.

Gardaí are questioning a mother of three over the fatal stabbing of a man in a suspected attack over a car parking space.

A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a 35-year-old man accused of murdering a retired grandmother, whose dismembered remains were found scattered across the Dublin and Wicklow mountains nearly three years ago.

A woman appearing in court by video link from prison on an aggravated burglary charge arising out of an investigation into her brother’s murder last September is to be brought to court in person on Monday because of an update in directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A labourer who denies the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe came to a garda station 11 days after the fatal shooting and said: "I came in to make a statement to hopefully clear my name."

The prosecuting barrister in the Patricia O’Connor murder trial says she believes Ms O’Connor's daughter and granddaughter told lies to support a ruse that she was still alive.

The mother of a man accused of murder has told the Central Criminal Court her son had no previous girlfriends before meeting the woman whose mother he is accused of killing.

A man has appeared in court, charged with the murder of Lyra McKee in Derry.

The jury in the Patricia O’Connor murder trial has heard her husband admitted reporting her as a missing person when he already knew she was dead.

An advocacy group for families of homicide victims is urging political parties to back laws allowing judges to impose minimum prison terms for murderers.

A woman in her 40s has been charged in connection with the deaths of three children in Co. Dublin.

Gardaí investigating the discovery of the bodies of three children in Co. Dublin have arrested a woman in her 40s on suspicion of murder.

A garda was murdered during a "slick, highly organised" operation carried out for a "base criminal motive", a barrister has told the Central Criminal Court.

Local policing knowledge was lost when garda stations were closed in 2013, officers tell Liz Dunphy.

Video clips and photographs taken in and around a house party where a college student was fatally stabbed in Cork city last week are playing a key role in the extensive garda probe.

Gardaí are satisfied with the rate of progress of their murder investigation into the killing of student Cameron Blair and played down fears that one of the alleged suspects had left the country.

A brother and sister have described finding a human torso in the Wicklow mountains while having a picnic, with one of them describing the body part as looking like “a piece of a pig”, a murder trial has heard.

Anna Quigley is so frustrated after listening to people on the radio talking about the murder and dismemberment of Keane Mulready-Woods that she struggles to speak.