The trial of a Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A security expert who protected one of the richest men in the world found a guard asleep on the job at JP McManus’s €100m home at Martinstown Stud, Co Limerick.

A man accused of raping his ex-girlfriend has told a jury that the complainant attacked him two days before the alleged assault and said she was going "to get me charged with rape and threatening to kill my child".

A woman, whose body was found by children playing on a car park, died from natural causes, a post-mortem examination showed today.