The court heard that there was a certain "family relationship" between the accused and deceased

A murder investigation has been launched into the death of a man following a serious assault in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, police said. Steven Peck, 33, who was from Ballymoney, was attacked on the Garryduff Road on January 3.

Policing authority boss Bob Collins said gangs like the Kinahan cartel are a  'genuine threat' and absolutely reckless in 'sucking' children into criminal activity

Gardaí in Limerick have released without charge a man arrested yesterday in connection with the 2003 murder of Limerick crime boss Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of his nephew Owen Treacy.

The Zodiac Killer - who was never caught - shot or stabbed seven people in the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of about year in 1968 and 1969, killing all but two of them. 

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with the murder of a Drogheda teenager.

Court of appeal ruling, which prevents the media from naming victims and their perpetrators, is inadvertently protecting the people 'that we don't want to protect'

Taoiseach tells Dáil Irish and British governments must endeavour to solve issue 

Mr Martin said today's decision would 'come as a further blow to Geraldine and her family, who have been pursuing truth and justice for three decades with great dignity.'

The Finucane family said the British government’s decision was 'astonishing, arrogant and cruel'

He is due to appear before Dún Laoghaire District Court tomorrow

Taoiseach met with Finucane family and urges UK to act ahead of court deadline of Monday

A woman serving a suspended sentence for staging a murder victim's suicide has been sent back to jail after a judge heard she has been charged with 33 new offences, has consumed crack and heroin, and failed to give notice of where she was living.

There remains an "air of mystery" about the violent death of a homeless man who was stabbed 62 times before his body was dumped in the gateway of a country lane, a High Court judge remarked this morning.

Gary Murtagh was arrested after the body of Paul Murtagh, aged 42, was found at their family home in Phibsboro, Dublin, on Friday

Victim's sister delivers powerful victim impact statement after 20-year-old sentenced to life in prison

The 29-year-old Armagh man is the seventh person that has been arrested in a top-level Garda investigation, led by detectives in the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Woman who survived his attack and victim's family were assured a new parole bill would postpone process for another five years

Violent, family tragedies are writ all too large across this week

Tomorrow will mark the first two funerals for two of the men killed in a dispute over farmland in Kanturk, Co Cork.

A Central Criminal Court jury has found an electrician guilty of murdering his partner of four months, whom he strangled in her bedroom after a "binge-drinking session".

Just over two years since gardaí found a 44-year-old man dying in a pool of blood in a house in Macroom after being stabbed 28 times, his ex-wife was today found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Timmy Foley’s family said their lives were changed forever with the news that their beloved family member had been brutally murdered. “As a family we have been scarred for life.

Rita O’Driscoll was given the mandatory life sentence for murdering her former husband, Timmy Foley.

Rita O’Driscoll was found not guilty on the charge of causing serious harm to the deceased man’s brother.

Boy A was sentenced to detention for life while Boy B was given a 12-year sentence for Ana Kriégel's murder

The deaths of Tadgh O’Sullivan and his two adult sons Mark and Diarmuid close to Kanturk in north Cork is not the first time that living and dying over inheritance has led to a 'murder-suicide' incident hitting the headlines.

The prosecution asked the jury to consider the passion in comments of the woman accused of murdering her ex-husband that if she could not have him nobody could, while the defence stressed a long history of abuse of her by the deceased.

Keith Walker was shot dead as he stood chatting with fellow pigeon enthusiasts at the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club.

Investigating gardaí confirmed it is the first of several such cases which will be taken. 

A man will go on trial in 2022 charged with impeding the investigation into the murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods.

The woman accused of murdering her ex-husband in Macroom two years ago told a psychiatrist that when she was in hospital a short time before his death she felt like a firework ready to explode.

Assistant state pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster testified today the deceased sustained 28 stab wounds

The decision by gardaí to upgrade the 25-year-old search for “Jo Jo” Dullard to a murder investigation will hopefully help “find answers” and “bring her home”, her family has said.

Deirdre Morley is charged with murdering her two young sons, Conor and Darragh, and her daughter Carla in January.

Court of Appeal told of 'reality' behind agony aunt letter sent by Quirke, that he was entangled both financially and intimately with Mary Lowry

The Cork woman on trial for murdering her ex-husband made several threats to kill him including one where she threatened to pour petrol over him and set him alight, the deceased man’s niece testified today.

Gardaí have issued a desperate appeal for information on the gruesome murder of a new-born baby over 47 years ago after all inquiries have been “exhausted”.

"We had a loving, happy family — but in just 58 senseless seconds, everything changed forever. "The wife of slain Garda Detective Adrian Donohoe said no words can express the impact of her husband's murder.

Scenes of crimes examiner, Detective Garda Gary McDonnell, also testified that "there was blood on the walls and floor."

‘Tabloidese’ garda comments about Patrick Quirke getting cash and sex on demand and other ‘prejudicial assertions’ during interviews should not have been allowed into the farmer’s murder trial, his barrister has argued in his appeal against ...

Mr Quirke's barrister also complained of a comment by interviewing gardaí that Quirke had "cash on demand and sex on demand" from Mary Lowry. 

While Ian Bailey will enjoy a huge surge of relief, Ms Du Plantier’s family will be distraught

Aaron Brady was found guilty of the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe by a majority jury verdict in August.

The sister of the murder victim Patrick O’Connor, Deborah, today told the court that it is 818 days since her family last saw his face, “the last time we spoke, the last time we laughed together.”

A man has been convicted of the murder of Irish woman Ciara Glennon in Australia in 1997. Bradley Robert Edwards, 51, was found guilty of the killing of Ms Glennon, and another woman - Jane Rimmer - in 1996.

Cian English fell to his death attempting to escape knife-wielding robbers

The 17-year-old was convicted of the manslaughter of Azzam Raguragui

More than 350 door-to-door enquiries have been made as part of the investigation into the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan in Castlerea.

Sebastian Barczuk has pleaded not guilty to murdering Polish national Michal Kurek