A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that the child had suffered severe brain damage.

A 29-year-old man, originally from Crumlin, has appeared in Dublin District Court charged with murdering his father last January.

A 22-year-old man on trial for murder told gardaí he felt like there was a “heavy load off” after he confessed to them that he had stabbed a man in the back.

Two men will be sentenced later for their roles in a botched drug dealer robbery which left a man dead.

A convicted murderer, who escaped from a Wicklow prison six years ago, has been handed over to the governor of Shelton Abbey Prison in Arklow to serve out the remainder of his life sentence.