A former lay worker with the Church of Ireland is to stand trial accused of sexual abuse of 10 boys between 1977 and 1990.

A lay church worker has appeared in court charged with indecently assaulting 10 boys over 13 years.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial at the Central Criminal Court spent today hearing highly technical mobile phone evidence.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD child rescued by gardaí from a burning house was fighting for her life last night after a suspicious fire in Mullingar, Co Westmeath.