Gardaí were investigating yesterday after a teen was taken to hospital with head injuries after reportedly being attacked with a hurley on a Co Cork beach.

Richard Satchwell has said his missing wife Tina had been troubled by something in the months leading up to her disappearance from their home in Youghal, Co Cork, last March.

A postmortem to be carried out this morning will determine if gardaí launch a murder inquiry, or decide the death of a Polish man was accidental.

A armed robber who was caught with a loaded shotgun outside a family home in Cork last year has been jailed for 14 years.

A gangster whose meticulously-planned raid on a safe in a businessman’s home was thwarted by armed gardaí with grenades and helicopter support has been jailed for 12 years.

Gardaí are awaiting the results of an autopsy today to determine the course of their investigation into the death of a pensioner whose body was discovered with numerous injuries at his home in Co Cork.

A PREGNANT teenager fell about 25m to her death from the roof of an apartment block after her ex-boyfriend lost hold of her.

A DESPERATE woman called a taxi driver and told him to “get me out of here” hours before her battered body was discovered in a pool of blood in her home.

A LOVING mother whose mentally ill husband killed their two daughters before he committed suicide held back the tears as she tried to explain the impact the tragedy has had on her life.

GARDAÍ believe the killer of a 32-year-old unemployed single man tried to disguise the murder by setting fire to the victim’s apartment.

A SENIOR garda has won his appeal against a district court judge’s decision to hold him in contempt of court.

A man who harassed a teacher for four years by following her, sneering and laughing at her and even buying a house with a bird’s eye view of hers was jailed for five years today with the last three years suspended.

A DECISION is expected shortly from the DPP on a request by gardaí for a judicial review of a judge’s decision to hold a garda inspector in contempt.

A HUGE air and sea rescue operation was mounted last night after the discovery of children’s clothing on the beach near where tragic Robert Holohan’s body was found two years ago.

WHEN Majella and Mark Holohan entered Midleton Courthouse for the inquest into their son’s death, yesterday, their determined bearing left no doubt that they wanted further answers as to what happened Robert Holohan at the hands of Wayne O’Donoghue on January 4, 2005.

THE parents of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan yesterday asked a senior garda whether he thought there was a sexual motive to the manslaughter of their son.

The inquest into the death of schoolboy Robert Holohan got underway in Midleton this afternoon.

RAY O’DONOGHUE was in his bedroom on the morning of January 16 when his eldest son Wayne walked in. He was crying and he told his father he loved him.

ROBERT HOLOHAN photographed a poster on the bedroom wall of the man accused of murdering him in the early hours of the morning only days before he was killed.

Midleton schoolboy, Robert Holohan, photographed a poster on the bedroom wall of the man accused of murdering him.

A DETECTIVE investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the schoolboy sometime after he dumped the remains.

A detective investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the school boy some time after he dumped the remains.

YESTERDAY afternoon the jury was played a tape of Wayne O'Donoghue being interviewed on January 17 at Midleton Garda Station.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE became aggressive with gardaí because of delays in the search for schoolboy Robert Holohan.

Wayne O’Donoghue took an active part in the search for Robert Holohan after his disappearance – and even reacted angrily to gardaí about delays.

AFTER Shane Murphy SC had outlined the prosecution case against O’Donoghue, the first witness to take the stand was Garda Laura Bulger.

A STUDENT appeared in court last night charged with the manslaughter of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan.

A Cork man was today found guilty of the murder of Mr Gerard Hackett, aged 49, at the Central Criminal Court.

The State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, today told a jury at the fourth day of a murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder that the victim "died from head injuries as a result from a sustained and severe assault".

A jury at a three-day murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder, today saw the accused's video taped admission to the hacking to death of the victim with an axe.

A Corkman accused of murder allegedly admitted to gardaí to killing a man with an axe after the victim attempted to have sex with him, a jury heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

The chef husband of one of Ireland’s best-known TV cookery show presenters was today given a conditional nine-month suspended jail sentence for having at his home up to 1,000 computer images of children, some as young as five.

The chef husband of one of Ireland’s best-known TV cookery show presenters was today given a conditional nine-month suspended jail sentence for possessing up to 1,000 computer images of children, some as young as five.