The Sunday World has been given one month to pay €75,000 for contempt of court after it called serial killer Mark Nash a “psycho” and “Pulp Fiction-style killer” before he had gone on trial for a second double-murder charge.

The High Court has granted permission to a man to bring proceedings aimed at preventing his trial for the murder of two women in Dublin 13 years ago in the well-known "Grangegorman murders" case.

A 36-year-old man has been charged with the 1997 Grangegorman murders in Dublin.

An inquest into the deaths of Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callinan, who were brutally killed at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in 1997, gets underway this morning at the Coroner's Court.

THE prime suspect for the murder of two female patients in the grounds of a Dublin psychiatric hospital in 1997 has refused to attend an inquest into their deaths.