A Louth man has been acquitted by direction of the judge of orally raping a mentally handicapped woman following a Central Criminal Court trial that made legal history.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Louth man accused of orally raping a woman with learning difficulties have watched a video of her interview with gardaí.

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The jury in the trial of the Sligo man accused of murdering 14 year-old Melissa Mahon has heard that she took a pregnancy test which was positive before she went missing.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a teenager accused of murdering his father has heard that the deceased died from blunt force trauma to the head which was complicated by a crush injury to the chest.

A Roscommon teenager told gardaí that he hit his father who arrived home drunk and left him asleep outside before finding him dead the next morning, a jury has heard.

Closing speeches have been heard in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Clonmel man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend.

A witness at the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of killing a 32-year-old father of two in north Dublin three years ago, has denied that he lied about having a knife on the night.

Murder accused Joe O'Reilly told gardaí that he had his phone with him all day on the day his wife Rachel died, the jury in the Central Criminal Court trial heard today.

A garda detective has denied that a man on trial for the murder of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Snr, was offered a place on the Witness Protection Programme if he turned state witness.

A man who confessed to cutting the throat of an older man in Inchicore four years ago was subjected to a horrific sexual assault in a field in Dublin as a teenager, a murder trial jury has heard.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead youth tried to have sex with her two weeks before her son allegedly stabbed him to death.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Co Galway man accused of the rape and murder of a schoolgirl in 1998 is continuing its deliberations.