A Dublin father accused of murdering two men told gardaí he had tried to kill himself because of the pressure he was under while in custody.

A Dublin man accused of a double murder in the city two years ago told gardaí that they had put him under pressure to confess to the crime.

A ‘tick list’ of drug debtors and creditors found on a murder victim had no reference to any of the men on trial for his murder at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial has heard that senior gardaí had unrecorded meetings with one of the main suspects and explained the Witness Protection Programme to him before he gave them any information on the killing.

A senior garda has told a murder trial that he did not follow regulations for handling informants when he dealt with the case’s chief prosecution witness.

A drug dealer-turned State witness in a murder trial has denied being a Garda informer for several years before the Dublin killing.

Garda witnesses in the case of two Dublin brothers on trial for murdering a young father, have told the jury they responded to an emergency call saying “there's murder in Tyrone Place with Christy Maughan.”

The man accused of a gangland style murder in a pub in Inchicore, Dublin, claimed in an interview shortly after the shooting that he was in Tallaght eating steak at the time.

A man accused of a cut-throat killing could have taken sleeping tablets or painkillers along with alcohol before he kicked and then stabbed an older man to death in Inchicore four years ago.