The jury in the trial of a 47-year-old man charged with the murder of a Cork woman at her home on Easter Sunday last year have watched extensive video evidence of his garda interviews for the second successive day.

A MAN has told gardaí that the Cork woman he is charged with murdering at her home on Easter Sunday last year had a “past life” and that people regularly called to her home in the months before her death.

A 47-year-old man told gardaí that the Cork woman he is charged with murdering at her home on Easter Sunday last year had a “past life” and that people had regularly called to her home in the months before her death.

A MOTHER of three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A mother-of-three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley and the door of a microwave oven after being knocked to the ground, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A 46-year-old Co Meath man is due to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court later this week charged with murdering a mother-of-three in Cork last year.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 57-year-old mother of three in Co Cork last month have arrested a 46-year-old man.

A DAUGHTER of a murdered woman made an emotional farewell to her mother, who should have been celebrating her 58th birthday next Wednesday.

Cork woman Catherine Smart, who was murdered in Midleton on Easter Sunday morning, has been laid to rest today.

A LARGE crowd of mourners attended the removal last night of murder victim Catherine Smart, whose body was found in her home in east Cork last Sunday morning.

GARDAÍ investigating the death of a mother-of-three have interviewed more than 50 people and expect it will take at least a month before they have completed a file for the DPP.

A man being questioned about the murder of Catherine Smart in Cork on Easter Sunday has been released without charge.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man about the murder of a Cork mother of three early on Easter Sunday morning.

A MAN is being questioned in connection with the murder of a woman in Cork at the weekend.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 57-year-old woman in Midleton in Co Cork have arrested a man in his late 40s for questioning about the woman's death.

It has emerged that a woman found dead from head injuries was seen alive by officers at around 5am yesterday morning when they called to her home in the town after she was unable to gain access to her house.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 57-year-old in Co Cork have found no evidence of forced entry at her home following a technical examination of the house.

Detectives were trying today to piece together the events leading up to the violent death of a middle-aged woman.