Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to the fatal stabbing of Michael Gallagher in Tallaght last night.

THE mother of a young man kicked out of the top floor window of a bus in Tallaght has been praying at her son’s hospital bedside for his recovery.

Gardaí were today awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations on two children found dead in their west Dublin home with their mother.

A MOTHER found dead beside the battered bodies of her two young sons is believed to have killed the children before taking her own life.

A man was being comforted by relatives tonight after the bodies of his wife and two young boys were found in their Dublin home.

The mother and two sons whose dead bodies were found today in a house in Rathfarnham have been named.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial told gardaí he gave him "two good belts" on the night he was kicked to death outside the Burlington Hotel.

A man accused of a cut-throat killing could have taken sleeping tablets or painkillers along with alcohol before he kicked and then stabbed an older man to death in Inchicore four years ago.

A Dublin man has gone on trial in the Central Criminal Court for cutting the throat of an older man in Inchicore four years ago.