A knotted piece of black cloth — described as a ligature — contained the DNA of both the accused and the dead man, a forensic expert told a murder trial.

Gardaí in Dublin have identified a woman who was found dead in the Phoenix Park 11 days ago.

The jury in the trial of a 36 year-old man accused of stabbing another man causing him serious harm, has heard that a youth made a statement to gardaí following the incident during which he identified the accused from a set of 12 photographs shown to him.

The father of a woman on trial for alleging he raped her was not the father of any of her children as she also claimed, a forensic scientist told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.