A mother and her daughter murdered in Kerry in 2013 were stabbed at least 72 times between them, an inquest into their deaths has heard.

The national chairwoman of the Federation for Victim Assistance has said the trial of a 28-year-old Lithuanian man found guilty of murdering a mother and daughter was the most difficult she had attended in 20 years.

A man charged with murdering a mother and her young daughter denied wanting to get rid of shoes he was wearing because they were covered in blood, his trial has heard.

The tip of a knife found in a pool of blood alongside the body of an eight-year-old girl and a piece of a blade found alongside her dead mother in their home were from the same knife, the trial of a man for double murder has been told.