The parents of a British backpacker killed in India are contemplating flying out to meet the man accused of murdering their daughter amid claims he is willing to reveal "a secret" about her death to them.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend in Limerick has heard from a volunteer who found his body in her back garden.

A woman has told a Dublin murder trial that she saw the accused man stab his alleged victim with a sharp knife following a fist fight outside a chipper.

A witness has told the jury in a Dublin murder trial that he saw his friend being repeatedly stabbed by the accused.

A veteran republican will find out on Thursday whether he is to stand trial for involvement in the notorious IRA murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville, a judge has said.

A Polish man was freed today after three years in custody when a trial judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to put him before a jury.

Two forensic psychiatrists have told the trial of a Donegal man accused of murdering his parents that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

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.

A 33-year-old Blarney, Co Cork, man accused of throwing a lighting petrol bomb into a house as well as assaulting a woman and three counts of threatening to kill women, complained yesterday about a delay in his case.