A Dublin civil servant who was convicted of the manslaughter of her husband has been sentenced to eight years in prison by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court was tonight sent to a hotel, after failing to reach a verdict in a murder case.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has this afternoon been sent away to consider its verdict in the case of a Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband.

A Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband has told the Central Criminal Court he first stuck her violently two weeks before their wedding.

The former State Pathologist, Dr John Harbison, has told a murder trial he detected at least 24 blows of a blunt instrument on the head of the deceased.

A Dublin man who was bludgeoned to death was possibly asleep at the time he was attacked, a garda ballistics expert has told a murder trial.

The son of a woman accused of murdering her husband has told her murder trial of constant rows between his parents and of his father’s drunkenness and violence towards the accused.

A civil servant in the Department of Justice has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of her husband at their Dublin home in 2002.

A 45-year-old woman has been remanded on bail charged with assaulting her husband, whose body was found in the bedroom of their Dublin home yesterday morning.

A 45-year-old woman is due before a Dublin court this morning on charges connected with the death of a man in Knocklyon yesterday.