Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said ‘yes’ in response to a question from the jury.

A young woman who died of a suspected drug overdose is the latest victim of a family fraught with problems, which include her aunt being jailed for a double murder and her mother dying in a drink-fuelled car crash.

A Cork couple who died in a high-speed crash on a rural road north of Cork City on Saturday have been named.

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Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The family of the Englishman murdered in Bandon said his four children would have to grow up without their father and that people capable of such violent acts as that committed by Ciprian Grozavu should not be allowed their freedom.

A knotted piece of black cloth — described as a ligature — contained the DNA of both the accused and the dead man, a forensic expert told a murder trial.

The Romanian man accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 said there was no time for him to stop the Cork woman who has admitted killing him.

A pathologist who observed a complex of multiple injuries on the body of a dead man found tied up in the River Bandon said it was very unlikely a person acting alone could have tied up and disposed of the body.

A murder trial witness said yesterday that the Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon told him on the night in question that he had killed the victim by cutting his throat.

The Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 claimed the woman drinking with them at the time slashed the victim’s throat with a broken glass after the victim had professed his love for her.

The body of a man was found in the Bandon River tied with cable and the belt from a cardigan and rolled up in a carpet, a jury was told yesterday as a 39-year-old man went on trial for murder.

We hope she’ll never see the light of day again and be allowed to torture another family like she’s tortured ours.

A 37-year-old Cork mother-of-three has been sentenced to life in prison for murder for a second time this year.

A woman in jail for murder has received another life sentence for killing John Forrester whose body was found trussed up with cable ties in the River Bandon, two years ago.

Coverage of the separate trials of Catherine O’Connor and Ciprian Grozavu was problematic as a result of an application at Grozavu’s trial to report nothing at all in case it would prejudice the trial of O’Connor.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

A soundtrack of the circumstances surrounding the murder of 27-year-old Jonathan Duke was available to the jury complete with noise from an upstairs apartment, the dragging of a body down the stairs, comments by the accused woman, and her laughing like a hyena afterwards.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was laughing hysterically in the Garda station holding cell within hours of her arrest, the last prosecution witness in her trial testified yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon had blood of the victim under a fingernail on her right hand, a forensic scientist told a judge and jury yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon, Co Cork, had been drinking three to four bottles of vodka a day around that time, she told investigating gardaí.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was found by gardaí with blood on her hands and feet and she told officers she had taken magic mushrooms, the jury was told yesterday.

A murder trial jury yesterday heard a recording of a 999 call from a man who claimed to have seen a body being thrown over the balcony outside his building.

A 37-year-old woman yesterday denied murdering a 27-year-old man whose strangled body with more than 60 wounds was found dead in the Bandon River in Nov 2011.

The true grit shown by Clonakilty was rewarded yesterday when the West Cork town claimed the award for the country’s tidiest small town — 10 weeks after being devastated by floods.

A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.

An Irishwoman and a Romanian man facing murder charges have been charged with a second murder in West Cork in November.

A MAN and a woman charged with the murder of a man in West Cork in November have been further remanded to appear in court again next month because of the complexity of the investigation.

A MAN and woman charged with the murder of a man whose body was recovered from the River Bandon have been further remanded in custody.

HUNDREDS of Chinese lanterns will be released at Bandon Bridge in West Cork tomorrow night during a ceremony in memory of a local father of one and a British father of four who died in the town last month.

THERE was a strong Garda presence outside a court in West Cork as a man and woman charged with murder were further remanded in custody.

A FATHER of one, whose body was recovered from the River Bandon in West Cork, longed for a life without violence, his Requiem Mass heard over the weekend.

Gardaí in Cork are today continuing to investigate two separate murders in Bandon.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Bandon, Co Cork have appealed for information on the family and background of the deceased.

The investigation into the death of a second man in Bandon, Co Cork, has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, gardaí said.

Gardaí in Cork will hold a case conference this morning following the discovery of a second man's body in a river in Bandon yesterday.

TWO people have been charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, Co Cork.

A man and woman have been charged with murdering a young father-of-one in Bandon, near where an Englishman has also been found killed.

The Irish Girl Guides celebrate their centenary this year, and have moved with the times, despite other distractions. Claire Droney reports

A SIGNIFICANT number of Limerick men are carrying a sexually transmitted disease that could leave their female partners infertile.

RURAL women have received scant attention in modern Irish history, Protestant rural women even less so.