A Dublin man who ran down an Arklow 21-year-old in his car is the first person in Ireland to be convicted of murder using a motor vehicle as a weapon.

A jury hearing the murder trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering an Arklow 21-year-old by hitting him with his car has retired to consider their verdicts.

The jury hearing the murder trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering an Arklow 21-year-old by hitting him with his car is expected to retire today to consider their verdicts.

A jury hearing the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder has been told to consider what was in the mind of the accused when his red Honda Civic hit his alleged victim.

A Dublin man accused of murder is estimated to have been driving between 66 and 81km per hour in a 50km zone when he hit his alleged victim, a court has heard.

A jury hearing the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder has begun hearing evidence from a forensic road accident investigator attached to the traffic unit of Garda National Headquarters.

A Dublin man accused of murder told gardaí at Arklow station his alleged victim 'f****d up' by messing with him, a court has heard.

A witness giving evidence in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering an Arklow 21-year-old has said the noise he heard when the accused’s car hit the victim was like a huge bang.

A man who was killed after being hit by a car may have been jumping as it struck him, flinging him 78 feet in the air, a court has heard.

A Dublin man accused of murdering an Arklow 21-year-old by driving his car into him had ample chance to leave the town before a fight escalated, ending in the victim’s death, a court has heard.

A Dublin man accused of murder was seen speeding up as he drove his car at his victim, hitting him and flinging him in the air like a rag-doll, a court has heard.

A Dublin man accused of murder sped up as he drove his car at the victim without braking, hitting him flinging him in the air like a rag-doll a court has heard.

An Arklow woman has told how a man accused of murder jumped in her car following a fight in an Arklow nightclub and later threatened to kill her and her parents if she did not drive him away after the alleged killing, a court has heard.

A jury hearing the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder has watched CCTV footage of his red Honda Civic allegedly hitting the man he is charged with murdering.

A Dublin man accused of murder was “screaming like a lunatic” on the night of the alleged crime, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

The friend of a Dublin man accused of murdering an Arklow 21-year-old, says he saw his friend running up the road - blood on his face, being chased by four men - after a fight which started in Arklow’s Rascals Disco, a court has heard.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of an Arklow 21-year-old after he allegedly drove his car at him killing him, had "cracked up" losing his temper after a fighting with the man in an Arklow nightclub, a court has heard.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering an Arklow resident when the car he was in allegedly swerved towards the victim killing him, will begin in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin today.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man died from head and chest injuries after he was knocked down on the Main Street in Arklow, Co Wicklow, in February of this year, an inquest heard yesterday.

IN MORE ways than one, it was a circle completed for Cork poet Greg Delanty, who returned to his native city for the launch of an anthology of his work.