From highly professional processional spectacles to downright paddywhackery, villages and towns throughout the country laid it on thick yesterday in honour of our national saint.

The jury in a Tipperary murder and arson trial has heard that charred debris was found at the home of the accused in the days after the killing.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard a .38 calibre colt revolver recovered by gardaí contained no fingerprints, the Central Criminal Court has heard.