The mother of murdered schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel has said the pain of living without her is “unbearable”.

The happiest day of our lives was the 10th August, 2006, the day the court declared that we could become the parents of Ana, who we felt was, the most wonderful child in the world.

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 new trial into the murder of Irish man Jason Corbett potentially hangs in the balance, a major US public service network documentary revealed last night.

Irish women will be the first in the world to take part in a clinical trial to treat one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

The manner in which the good character of a farmer, who was killed when a neighbour drove the prongs of a teleporter into him, was "shredded" during trial was "even more harrowing" than hearing the "grotesque details" of how his life ended, the victim's brother has said.

The man accused of murdering a 38-year-old woman gave evidence of meeting the deceased on a 10-week course called Effective Communication for Better Relationships.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) has criticised the suspended sentence handed down to an 86-year-old man who pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of two children more than 60 years ago.

Stuart Olding's defence solicitor says all rape and serious sexual assault cases in Northern Ireland should now be reviewed.

Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding's departure from Ulster Rugby is expected to be announced imminently.

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre believes legal assistance should be provided to complainants in rape trials where the main issue is credibility, says spokesperson Noeline Blackwell.

A doctor who examined a woman allegedly raped by two Ireland and Ulster rugby players could not determine whether the sexual contact had been consensual, despite intimate injuries.

Former reporter Linda Deutsch recalls the grim and surreal spectacle of Charles Manson trial.

Leo Varadkar has made a significant intervention in the fallout from the Jobstown trial and urged Garda management to examine the investigation including any conflicting evidence.

Bill Cosby's trial raced towards a close, with his lawyer telling the jury that the comedian and the woman who accuses him of drugging and molesting her more than a decade ago were lovers who had enjoyed secret "romantic interludes".

The defence says it is calling just one witness.

Gardaí were ordered to leave a water charges protest because some of them were armed, the trial of seven men accused of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton has heard.

The trial of a man accused of kidnapping a family as part of a €660,000 robbery has collapsed amid concerns some jurors were getting information from outside the trial.

A woman has told a Kilkenny cold case murder trial that the accused told her he killed a widow pensioner but that it was an accident.

A Wicklow murder trial has heard the accused lied about where his alleged victim was on the day he killed her.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering Daniel McAnaspie has been hearing about statements he made while the teenager was still missing.

A woman told a jury yesterday of how she was followed by a young Cork man and sexually attacked in the lift of her apartment building in the city, writes Liam Heylin.

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial in an inquiry into alleged campaign finance fraud during his 2012 presidential campaign, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

A woman accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her to work as a prostitute has claimed that the alleged victim was having an affair with her husband.

A drug to treat multiple sclerosis has undergone successful trials showing its ability to slow damage to the brain, scientists have said.

Ibrahim Halawa's trial has been postponed for the 15th time.

An Irish patient with blood cancer has become the first in the world to take part in a new drug trial which could pave the way for longer cancer remission times.

Three new jurors have been sworn in to hear the trial of Anglo Irish Bank’s former chairman Sean Fitzpatrick.

A Brazilian judge has ruled that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on charges of money laundering and corruption.

A Pennsylvania judge has denied Bill Cosby’s latest bid to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. The 78-year-old comedian must stand trial.

A woman has gone on trial accused of murdering a Hungarian man by driving a car he was a passenger in off a harbour in Co Wicklow.

The man accused of the terror-related murder of Labour MP, Jo Cox, a week ago, will be tried in the autumn.

A woman who claims her husband raped her in 2014 has told his trial that she blames herself for not leaving him sooner.

A man has gone on trial accused of raping his wife after she told him she wanted a separation.

Prosecutors call for opposite decisions in high-profile fraud case

Justice knows no bounds as a dog in Cork had to go to the Offices of the Ombudsman to get a fair trial, after he was wrongly accused of biting someone.

The jurors in a conspiracy to defraud trial have finished their fifth day of deliberations without reaching any verdicts.

An Algerian man is due to go on trial for allegedly being part of a group that groped a woman in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

The jurors in David Mahon’s murder trial have retired for a second day without reaching a verdict.

Latest The judge in the trial of David Mahon, who is accused of murdering his stepson, has told the jurors she will only accept a unanimous verdict.

The jurors in David Mahon's murder trial are due to be sent out at some stage today to begin their deliberations.