However, he said he is not happy with how society responded to the crime.

The Taoiseach wants to see the abandoned building where schoolgirl Ana Kriegel was murdered demolished.

A rape victim who successfully campaigned for victim impact statements to be introduced in court said hearing the Kriegels' words after their daughter’s killers were convicted of murder and sexual assault were “the most important" she’s heard since she started campaigning.

More than 60 witnesses gave evidence in the Ana Kriegel murder trial, which began on April 30. Ana's parents were among the first to be called.

Taking the stand today, Boy A's gradfather said he had "sincere and utter sympathy" for the Kriegel family and could not imagine their loss.

Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Anyone who publishes photographs or identifies the two teenage boys who murdered Ana Kriegel will feel the full force of the law, a judge has warned.

Geraldine Kriegel described their daughter as ‘very immature, a child on the inside’.

A jury has convicted two 14-year-old boys of murdering "lonely and vulnerable" schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel, whose naked body was found in an abandoned farmhouse three days after she went missing.

The lawyer for a teenage boy, accused of the murder and aggravated sexual assault of Anastasia Kriegel, has said there was "not one pick of evidence" given by any witness in court that his client intended to kill the schoolgirl or anyone.

The lawyer for a teenage boy, accused of the murder and aggravated sexual assault of Anastasia Kriegel, has asked the jury to consider if there is any “real evidence” that his client had planned “any of this at all”.

Both boys accused of murdering Ana Kriegel lied to the gardaí investigating her disappearance in May last year, Brendan Grehan, prosecuting, said yesterday in his closing speech to the jury.

The jury in the Ana Kriegel trial has heard her blood was found on boots belonging to one of two teenage boys accused of murdering the schoolgirl.

A boy who said he had been beaten up in a woods in the park where Anastasia Kriegel was last seen looked "like a rabbit caught in the headlights" and wouldn't engage, a park ranger has told the trial of the two boys accused of her murder.

A sergeant has testified that he observed a ‘look’ or ‘glance’ between the two boys accused of murdering Anastasia Kriegel when they were showing gardaí where they claimed they’d last seen her.

Anastasia Kriegel’s father has described seeing his 14-year-old daughter walking away from their home with one of the boys accused of her murder 20 minutes before her phone tried to call her mother’s office, and half an hour before the State believes she was dead.

Anastasia Kriegel’s father has described seeing his 14-year-old daughter walking away from their home with one of the boys accused of her murder 20 minutes before her phone tried to call her mother’s workplace, and half an hour before the State believe she was dead.

One of the boys accused of murdering 14-year-old Anastasia Kriegel lured her from her home to a derelict farmhouse where he voyeuristically watched another boy sexually assault and murder the “vulnerable” schoolgirl.

Two children have gone on trial, charged with murdering another child in Co Dublin last year.

Two teenagers will go on trial tomorrow, having pleaded not guilty to murdering Kildare schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel, in a case that the judge warned would be upsetting.