The Department of Justice is refusing to detail how the State Pathologist’s Office will manage its workload in the wake of the sudden resignation of deputy state pathologist Dr Khalid Jaber.

The family of a man found dead with multiple injuries have been left with questions after the trial of the man accused of murdering him collapsed over doubts about evidence from a deputy State pathologist.

Gardaí have still not identified the dead man in his 20s found face down on farmland in north county Dublin, but they believe his death is not suspicious.

Gardaí have launched a murder probe after a man was stabbed to death.

THIRTY-ONE Garda stations around the country will close, more will reduce opening hours and Garda overtime and allowances will be cut, Justice Minister Alan Shatter announced yesterday.

A ROW between two young men, described as being the “best of pals”, ended in appalling tragedy after one of them was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.

Teams tracing the body of a man believed to have been shot and buried 30 years ago by the IRA appeared today to have found him only days after giving up the search.

A DEADLY gang feud in Dublin’s north inner city claimed its fifth life yesterday when a man was gunned down on a street in broad daylight.

Two teenage girls were being questioned by murder squad detectives today over the latest suspected gangland killing.

Four men were being questioned today after a man was shot dead in a suspected gangland attack.

A man was shot dead tonight in Dublin’s latest gangland gun attack.

The body of a man was found on the banks of Dublin’s Grand Canal this morning.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the murder of a mother-of-two in Co Longford.

The body of an elderly man was discovered in the Grand Canal in Dublin today, gardaí have confirmed.

THE Department of Justice and Dublin City Council are in negotiations to build a multi-million-euro facility, which would house the offices of the State pathologist and city coroner.

BEAUMONT HOSPITAL feared that, if a new facility for the State Pathologist’s Office was located on its grounds, patients and visitors would be distressed by the sight of corpses being wheeled in and out of the building.

The body of a man was discovered in a drain today by a couple walking through a popular Dublin park, gardai said.

Gardai have named the woman who was killed in south Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí were today questioning a man about the murder of a woman who was found with her throat slit in a derelict Dublin flat.

Gardai in Dublin have arrested a teenager in connection with a fatal stabbing in the Bayside/Sutton area early this morning.

Gardai today launched a transatlantic hunt for two Americans who are believed to have flown to Ireland to help a severely depressed woman commit suicide.