Brian Kearney had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhan, a jury in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard, as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases today.

The jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering his estranged partner in April last year has begun to hear closing speeches in the case and are expected to retired to consider their verdicts this afternoon.

The 21-month-old son of a woman stabbed to death by her estranged partner before he turned a knife on himself sat watching television on the couch as his parents struggled over the weapon, a court has heard.

A psychiatrist drowned her teenage daughter in a bath before taking an overdose of sleeping tablets and anti-depressants, a court heard today.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a raid on a post office which netted him more than €13,000.

A Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a post office raid is an asylum seeker who said he had no money, could not get a work visa and was suffering from depression, the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.

A man who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Cavan woman on the grounds of diminished responsibility was nicknamed "crazy" by his friends, the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.

The father of a man accused of murdering a Cavan women by stabbing her to death in her front garden has given evidence in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin telling the court his son was difficult and always different from his other children.

A Cavan woman who was stabbed to death on her front lawn suffered stab wounds to both her lungs that caused her death the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.