A 30-year-old Mayo man has admitted killing two elderly brothers, who were beaten to death in their Castlebar home four years ago.

DNA matching a murder accused was identified on a glove and wig found alongside the sub-machine gun alleged to have been used in an attack that left a 36-year-old dead, a trial heard today.

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the moment a man was shot 18 times with a sub-machine gun in the car park of a pigeon racing club.

A 34-year-old man has gone on trial accused of murdering another man at a Pigeon Club in West Dublin.

A man has gone on trial for the alleged murder of his friend at Farrankelly Road in Delgany, Co Wicklow seven years ago.

A woman charged with murdering her “on and off” partner told gardaí she was defending herself after he had waved a knife at her, her trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A paranoid schizophrenic who killed his parents with an axe has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

A man on trial accused of murder told gardaí that he stabbed a man who was lying in his bed, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

The nephew of a murder accused said his uncle stabbed the deceased in the chest with a a foot-long butcher knife in a statement read to the jury yesterday.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a man with a stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A woman has told her former partner’s murder trial that when she visited him in prison he told her he had stabbed the deceased.

A 39-year-old man has gone on trial charged with murdering a 45-year-old man with a baseball bat in “broad daylight”.

A paramedic has told the trial of a 40-year-old, who admits killing a Polish man in Clare last year but denies murdering him, that he saw the deceased being kicked in the head.

A Mayo woman who has been missing since December 2000 had a positive pregnancy test confirmed by her GP on the day she disappeared, the Central Criminal Court has been told.

A 19-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court today, accused of stabbing a teenager to death in Inchicore.

A former Fine Gael councillor convicted of receiving corrupt payments remained a free man yesterday after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until late June.

Just one of the four victims of a Kerry farmer and former county council employee found guilty of 29 counts of sexual assault felt able to read out a victim impact statement at yesterday’s sentence hearing at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee

A judge has told a jury they should only decide a case on evidence heard in court, and could not conduct their own research online.

The family of a young man killed in front of the mother of his unborn baby has said that part of them died with him that night and that some days they don’t want to live.

A MAN will be given a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of murdering his friend in a row in Wicklow last year.

A man will be given a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of murdering his friend in a row in Co. Wicklow last year.

A man accused of murdering his friend using a rock told gardaí “I only hit him about two or three times”.

A 26-year-old Dublin man died of multiple gunshot wounds, after being shot with a handgun and shotgun in a Clontarf apartment building.

THE Irish Examiner and the Irish Times have been found to be in technical contempt of court following the publication of court reports which led to the collapse of the trial of former GP, Dr Paschal Carmody.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody is not the conman the prosecution is suggesting but a man who has given his life to the treatment of illnesses of the young and old, his counsel has claimed.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody said a cancerous tumour and multiple lesions in the body of his brother, Peter, disappeared after he administered to him photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment and other treatments.

Three Mountjoy Prison inmates have received consecutive sentences for their roles in a riot that caused a five hour lock-down and left prison officers with broken teeth.

The Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgement today on an attempt by convicted murderer Brian Kearney to have his case heard by the country’s highest court.

A woman charged with murdering her husband 23 years ago signed him into a mental institute two years before his death, their doctor told her trial.

A Kerry pensioner failed to overturn his conviction for sexual offences against young boys today but had the amount of jail time he is to serve halved.

THREE men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28 million “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.

Three men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28m “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.

The state have finished their evidence in the trial of five men accused of involvement in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery.

A 2005 "tiger kidnapping" victim today identified an ex-colleague accused of the robbery on Securicor CCTV the morning of the crime.

A young man has revealed similarities between two men caught on shop CCTV and raiders who kidnapped him and his family in a €2.28m Securicor robbery.

A detective sergeant has revealed that a man on trial for a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery said one of his co-accused rang him on the morning of the crime.

One of the men on trial in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery case told gardaí he knew one of his co-accused and was buying a car from him at the time.

A Wexford motor business consultant has been given a nine-month suspended prison sentence and a leading company has been fined €35,000 for their roles in a Citroen price-fixing cartel.

A phone company engineer has revealed the heavy call traffic between mobile phone numbers in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" investigation.

A Securicor ATM worker has revealed he thought his former partner would have a heart attack at the wheel of their company van shortly after depositing €2.28m cash for armed raiders.

A Dublin woman has described her family's "tiger kidnapping" ordeal when armed raiders burst into her home in a €2.28m robbery four years ago.

The State Pathologist has told the jury in a Tipperary murder and arson trial that the 30-year-old victim died from a single stab wound to the chest, which penetrated the heart.