Families of victims of violence are understandably disillusioned and angry with the large number of crimes being committed by people on bail after being charged with serious offences.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has agreed to conduct research into bail practices following the disclosure that a quarter of people who met violent deaths last year were killed by offenders out on bail at the time.

Victims' families today expressed anger at the huge number of people killed by offenders out on bail.

THE other inmates in Mountjoy stay away from Brian Willoughby. He has a reputation.

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that after the accused allegedly stabbed his victim he ran from the scene and continued drinking into the early hours of the morning.

THE grieving parents of two young murder victims have pleaded for an end to early prison release for people convicted of serious crimes and for a clampdown on bail for those awaiting trial.

A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of 19 year-old Brian Mulvaney, who was beaten to death in a south Dublin suburb in March 2000.

An 18 year-old man who was convicted in April of the manslaughter of Brian Mulvaney today pleaded guilty to charges arising from two other assaults he carried out on the same night.

DO we have to make a monster out of someone to get our kicks? Surely we can be sufficiently grown-up to look at the whole picture. We are neither the parents nor doctors of Brian Willoughby, and so we don’t know all the details of his personality, possible conditions or family life.

SUPPORT services for hundreds of children suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD) are still inadequate, despite years of campaigning from parents on the frontline dealing with the damaging condition, it has been claimed.

The trial of three young men accused of murdering a 19 year-old Dublin man collapsed today at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court today heard that one of the three co-accused was "getting on like a house on fire" with the 19 year-old victim at a friend’s party in the hours before the killing.