The Labour party is demanding to know how many criminal cases may be affected by the ill health of former State Pathologist John Harbison.

The two men jailed in connection with the death of Brian Murphy during a fight at a Dublin nightclub five years ago have been freed from prison after they completed their sentences.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has reportedly decided to seek a retrial in the case of the Co Monaghan man charged in connection with the death of teenager Brian Murphy.

A LAWYER for the man convicted of the manslaughter of a teenage student outside Anabel's nightclub nearly five years ago told the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday they are baffled as to how the verdicts in the case were rendered.

Astrac will make history next month by becoming the first horse to run at every British venue that stages Flat racing.

A student who died after a fight outside a nightclub was seen goading and hitting one of four youths accused of killing him, a court heard today.

A best friend of Brian Murphy, who was kicked to death in a fight outside the Burlington Hotel, has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that the deceased was in a fight with a former Blackrock College pupil before he was knocked unconscious.