A jury has been selected to hear the trial of a Limerick student charged with murdering a 59-year-old man by stabbing him to death.

The jury hearing the trial of a man accused of murdering his estranged partner in front of their son before turning a knife on himself, have heard he was sober when he started swinging the knife at her.

A Turkish barber who stabbed his ex-partner and left her to die in front of their one-year-old son before cutting his own throat and wrists was “inconsolable” over his child’s broken finger, a court has heard.

A Clonakilty woman was found stabbed to death in her estranged partner's flat with their baby son asleep nearby and her ex-partner lying on the floor with cuts to his throat and wrists, a court has heard.

A psychiatrist who drowned her teenage daughter in the bath to save her from a hopeless life of anorexia has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

A jury of nine women and three men has been selected to hear the trial of a psychiatrist from Kilkenny charged with murdering her teenage daughter.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Kilkenny postmaster were told this morning the accused had no previous convictions and Gardai had checked his record with Chinese authorities.

A Cavan man has been found guilty of murdering a mother of one by stabbing her to death on the front lawn of her home a day after she gave evidence in court against a friend of his.

A man who witnessed his friend being stabbed to death on the front lawn of her home has told a court he saw her attacker standing over her and striking her while saying “don’t f*** with us."