Friends of Thomas Ruttle had become concerned that his fraudster partner, Julia Holmes, had been trying in recent months to sell his family home in Co Limerick and move to Spain.

Julia Holmes’ odyssey of international fraud may end in a pauper’s grave in Co Limerick.

There was an angry outburst from the murderer of a 59-year-old homeless man as he was being sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday at the end of a three-week trial.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless person deliberated throughout yesterday without reaching a verdict. They will resume their deliberations on Tuesday.

Man tells trial he thought victim would slide down into the rubbish and go about his business

The homeless man whose body was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment block suffered no fatal injuries beforehand and died as a result of asphyxia and lack of oxygen, a pathologist has said.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in yesterday for the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless man whose body was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May 2013.

The senior judge of the Central Criminal Court was praised in tributes from lawyers in Cork on the occasion of his last visit as a judge – and his own seven-word reply made his feelings clear about his forthcoming retirement from the bench: “There is nothing voluntary about my going.”

A armed robber who was caught with a loaded shotgun outside a family home in Cork last year has been jailed for 14 years.

A Garda Regional Support Unit member testified in a trial yesterday he was briefed in advance that an accused man was expected to be at the scene of an attempted aggravated burglary.

A man who denied an attempted aggravated burglary while armed with a shotgun was seen at the scene of the crime by an armed member of the Garda Regional Support Unit, a judge and jury was told yesterday.

Almost 20 years after her body was found in an apartment in Dublin, a cold case investigation autopsy has been carried out on the remains of a Co Limerick woman.

Two men were arrested near the scene of an attempted aggravated burglary and an officer testified yesterday the last sighting he had of a third man was when he disappeared in a field of cows.

The lawyer for a man charged with carrying a pump-action shotgun during an attempted aggravated burglary accused a garda of telling great lies in the witness box as the officer said he clearly saw the defendant at the crime scene.

A Garda helicopter flew to the scene of an attempted house raid in Cork that was intercepted by armed officers, while a heat-seeking device in the helicopter picked up a man trying to conceal himself in undergrowth.

Acting on a tip-off that a robbery was planned at the home of a businessman who sometimes kept money in his safe, gardaí who were lying in wait detonated a stun grenade to disorientate three men creeping around the house, it was claimed yesterday.

After being told by a defence lawyer that the State had failed in coming up with alternatives to jail when dealing with young offenders, a judge yesterday ordered a year-long night curfew at home for a troubled Limerick teenager rather than locking him up.

A father of two who agreed to transport a gun to repay a drugs debt was yesterday jailed for four years.

A murder trial jury has been shown a hatchet found in the home of two men accused of a Limerick murder, hours after the deceased was killed.

A man accused of abducting the son of a Limerick post mistress dyed his hair some days after the incident, a jury heard yesterday.

Two Dublin brothers who were found guilty of murdering a father-of-six in front of his wife and children have begun an appeal against their conviction for a second time.

The murders of a mother, her two young children and a family friend, in a house in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, on Nov 15, 2010, was described by a coroner as “mindless, mind-numbing, inexplicable, vicious” crime which shocked the nation.

A man yesterday told how, after he and a friend were abducted, he was freed and told his friend would be killed if his friend’s mother did not pay €500,000.

Limerick gangland figure Ger Dundon has failed in appeal against his five-year sentence for violent disorder.

No matter how loud he turned the music up on his walkman, no matter no hard he pressed the headphones against his ears, John Dundon could not drown out the reality facing him in Court 11.

John Dundon has been found guilty of the murder of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan in a case of mistaken identity.

A court has been told that John Dundon’s carelessness in describing a man he wanted killed caused the death of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

A court has been told that John Dundon’s carelessness in describing a man he wanted killed caused the death of innocent rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of Limerick man John Dundon, who is accused of murdering rugby player Shane Geoghegan almost five years ago.

Lawyers for the Limerick man accused of murdering a Garryowen rugby player in 2008 will begin their defence today.

A person seen on CCTV footage with a man accused of murder, handed over his phone to gardaí on the day of the shooting, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A 29-year-old Limerick woman has said that she heard John Dundon plan a killing a couple of weeks before rugby player Shane Geoghegan was murdered in a case of mistaken identity.

The chief prosecution witness in a Limerick murder trial has said she should not feel guilty about Shane Geoghegan’s murder, despite knowing about the killing and doing nothing to prevent it.

A Limerick woman has agreed that she could have saved Shane Geoghegan’s life if she had taken two opportunities to report a planned murder in the hours before the shooting.

A Limerick woman has agreed that she could have saved Shane Geoghegan’s life if she had taken two opportunities to report a planned murder in the hours before he died.

A Glock pistol was used in the shooting dead of rugby player Shane Geoghegan in Limerick, a murder trial has heard.

A coroner said he has never officially recorded a “suicide” verdict because of the outdated law coroners work under despite the fact that suicide in his West Limerick area is now at “contagion levels”.

Brendan Nix told the court that a member of the Dundon family contacted John Devane solicitors on Tuesday and asked the Limerick firm to come on record for the accused man.

A hospital consultant could find no reason why an illiterate prisoner due to defend himself at a murder trial fainted and cut his head in a cell, a court has heard.

A woman told a court that a Limerick firefighter, now retired, convinced her it was normal to perform oral sex on him when, as a child, she babysat at his home.

Following the death of an elderly patient at St Ita’s Hospital in Newcastle West during an outbreak of flu, the coroner for West Limerick has ordered an autopsy.

A woman described as a “sprat” gobbled up by drugs gang “rats” was yesterday jailed for two years.

Peace broke out under the battlements of Limerick’s King John’s Castle yesterday between a leading barrister and a top publisher who had been locked in a war of words over tomato ketchup.

A senior barrister in Limerick has called on people to boycott products advertised on TV3 following derogatory remarks made about his native city on Come Dine With Me by one of its celebrity guests.