Former Labour TD, Michael McNamara told the district court that he was “utterly and completely shocked” when pepper-sprayed by a Garda outside his home in December 2016.

The jury in the trial of a Clonmel man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend has heard that the key prosecution witness told a friend that she was not sure who committed the killing.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to murder her partner and his two sons is a 'patsy' the prosecution is using to secure the conviction of his co-accused a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.