LATEST: Gardaí at the Bridewell Garda Station are appealing for information following the death of a woman in Cork city.

A man charged with a 1997 double murder said a confession made by him in relation to the killings was “produced” by gardaí, a jury has heard.

The Minister for Justice has expressed a desire to close two of the country's oldest prisons and develop a new criminal courts complex in Dublin.