Answers provided to gardaí by a man accused of making a bomb in his shed were "an incredible series of denials," a barrister has told the Special Criminal Court.

The prosecution has concluded its evidence in the Central Criminal Court trial of an English man accused of raping a woman in a Dublin hotel bathroom while her friend slept in the next room.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Cavan woman has begun to hear forensic evidence from analysis of clothing from both the accused and the murdered woman.