The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

The teenager had been in the country for only three weeks before she was abducted and murdered, writes Barry Cummins

For almost 1,500 days, the body of teenager Marioara Rostas lay hidden in a shallow grave in Co Wicklow, writes Barry Cummins

GARDAÍ investigating the crimes of convicted rapist Larry Murphy have removed the concrete base of a remote hunter’s cabin near his Wicklow home.

AMID the gruesome circumstances of Marie Kilmartin’s murder, there were some clues.

THE family of the only prison officer ever assassinated in the Republic are in talks with gardaí about reopening the murder files, it emerged yesterday.

The family of the only prison officer ever assassinated in the Republic are in talks with gardaí about reopening the murder files, it emerged today.

A GUIDE designed to ease the trauma suffered by victims of homicide in dealing with the criminal justice system will be launched today.

On the 10th anniversary of Jo Jo Dullard’s disappearance, her sister believes she knows the identity of her killer and says gardaí have not done enough, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

WARNINGS that serial sex offender Robert Howard would commit even more serious crimes were given eight years before he abducted, raped and murdered a 14-year-old schoolgirl.