A Garda told a murder trial today how he realised that an alleged double murder suspect captured on video footage was a man he had spent four days taking a witness statement from.

Gardaí sourced a Chinese policeman through Interpol to act as a translator during their interrogation of a man accused of double murder, a jury heard today.

Fingerprint evidence from the Garda Technical Bureau has never been wrong, a bureau member claimed today as he was cross-examined in a double murder trial.

A man on trial for double murder was "on the verge of tears" when he arrived at the scene of the killings the morning after, a garda witness has told a murder trial jury.

A young man accused of the double murder of two friends whose burnt remains were found in Dublin in March 2001 told a witness he had lost £1,000 playing 'Blackjack' in an amusement arcade in the city.