The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his close friend and causing serious harm to a second man, will begin its deliberations tomorrow.

A Monaghan man in his 20s failed to offer any explanation for why he had certain explosive materials in his presence when he was arrested during an armed raid on a Dublin apartment, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The Limerick man alleged to have raped a woman walking home alone in the early hours of Halloween Night two years ago has been linked to her through DNA matching.

A Wexford man who stabbed his sister’s boyfriend to death in a vicious row, during which part of the accused’s ear was bitten off, has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.