Microsoft said the record antitrust fine levied against it in 2004 should be tossed out, or at least greatly reduced, because the punishment outweighed the infraction, the company’s lawyers said in Luxembourg today.

Microsoft Corp. today complained that the European Commission had forced it to hand over trade secrets to rivals, effectively giving them a “free ride” on the work the software maker did to acquire new customers and develop new technologies.

A Dublin man who spent three days in jail on behalf of his brother was today released from custody.

CHRISTMAS 2004 will be one never to forget for all the wrong reasons for four families from Dublin’s northside after events in the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

The sentence date for convicted murderer Christopher Dunne for the fatal stabbing of teenager Alan Higgins over his mobile phone has been set by the Central Criminal Court.

Seventeen-year-old Christopher Dunne has been found guilty of the murder of Alan Higgins for his mobile phone at the Central Criminal Court.

The "only reasonable" verdict to be reached in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering Alan Higgins "is one of murder", a jury has heard at the Central Criminal Court.

The DNA of murdered schoolboy Alan Higgins was found on the clothes of the teenage accused, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The teenager accused of murdering Alan Higgins allegedly admitted to stabbing the schoolboy, telling gardaí: "I just stabbed the bloke. Very sorry. I am very sorry. It wasn’t meant to happen that way," the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The teenager accused of murdering Alan Higgins allegedly admitted to stabbing the schoolboy the morning after the fatal attack, a witness told a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a 17-year-old Dublin teenager who is accused of the murder of a school boy began today at the Central Criminal Court.