A post-mortem is due to be carried out on the body of a man stabbed to death in Dublin.

A woman has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the chest in her Co Tipperary home over two years ago.

A drug addict with "a capacity for violence and aggressive behaviour", who stabbed another man in the back during a row, has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court for manslaughter.

The mother of a Clare man who was stabbed in the back during a row previously lost her daughter in a car crash and finds that life is now “a constant struggle with only memories to sustain” her, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A pathologist at a murder trial has detailed more than 40 injuries he found on the body of a man who was allegedly beaten to death after he fired shots at a house.

John Tighe (40) of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo denies murdering Joshua Sussbier Tighe at his home on June 1, 2013.

A murder victim had to be identified using fingerprints after he was shot in the head, an inquest has heard.

Gardaí were granted an extra 48 hours by the courts today to continue to designate the home of a murdered pensioner a crime scene, following her killing last Friday.

A jury has found a teenager guilty of murder for stabbing his best friend to death.

Two men were sentenced to life in prison today after being found guilty of murdering a man at a house party that descended into violence.

A man died when a knife pierced his heart during a "violent and frenzied" attack, a pathologist has told a murder trial.

Shooting victim Mark Desmond died of multiple gunshot wounds and was identified following his death by fingerprint technology, an inquest into his death heard.

A man accused of murdering his former partner and mother of their two children has punched a prosecuting barrister in the face at the Central Criminal Court.

A witness has told a Wicklow murder trial that he thought he saw brain when he checked on a man he had seen being beaten on the side of a road.

Daniel McAnaspie’s skeletal remains were found on a farm in Co. Meath in May 2010.

A mother of two sons murdered in gangland style killings said ‘she is a broken woman’ following her loss.

A 33-year-old man was stabbed to death at a Traveller halting site in Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Regency Hotel shooting victim David Byrne died of multiple gunshot wounds, an inquest into his death heard.

A postmortem to be carried out this morning will determine if gardaí launch a murder inquiry, or decide the death of a Polish man was accidental.

Jurors in David Mahon’s murder trial have today heard he told gardai that his stepson had twice threatened to kill him and once pulled a gun on him.

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following a successful appeal was today sentenced to 11 years with three suspended for manslaughter.

A Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial jury that a 30 year old man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung.

A Limerick man jailed for life four years ago has had his conviction for murder quashed on the basis that his trial was unsatisfactory.

A Dublin man has been found not guilty of the murder but guilty of the manslaughter of archaeologist Emmett Connolly in Co Cavan 18 months ago.

The trial of a 20-year-old Waterford man charged with murdering a 22-year-old in the city has heard that the deceased died of blunt force trauma to the head, which could have been due to kicking, stamping or stomping.

A woman's body has been exhumed in Limerick and taken to University Hospital Limerick for a post mortem examination.

Gardaí have said they will not be releasing the results of the post mortem examinations following the deaths of three brothers in Co Cork for operational reasons.

Searches of the recycling plant where a man’s severed limbs were found are to continue for at least several more days as gardaí continue to find fragments of what are thought to be pieces of flesh and bone.

Gardaí have confirmed that body parts found at a recycling centre in Dublin are from a man.

A murder investigation is under way in Co Wicklow this evening following the death of a 50-year-old woman in Bray..

A post mortem will be carried out later today on the body of a 39-year-old man shot dead in Dublin yesterday.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a pensioner over three years ago.

A Dublin man has been acquitted of a taxi driver’s manslaughter in the city over two years ago.

The victim in last night's gangland-style shooting in Dublin was wearing a bulletproof vest when he he was shot dead, it has emerged.

Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid Jabbar has resigned from his post, it has emerged.

The trial of a Co Wexford man for murdering another man in the county collapsed today at the Central Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

Detectives probing the murder of a convicted criminal whose body was chopped up and dumped in a stream have issued a fresh appeal for information.

A woman has been arrested by detectives probing the suspicious death of a mother-of-one found with suspected head injuries after a party.

The body of a woman in her 20s has been found in Blanchardstown in West Dublin.

A woman who died after being found unconscious at an apartment in Dublin's north inner city suffered some sort of blow to the head, according to the Deputy State Pathologist.

A bread deliveryman who was shot in a Limerick petrol station three years ago died from multiple gunshot wounds, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Skeletal remains found in the Dublin mountains yesterday evening have now been moved from the scene.

Gardaí are hunting three men seen running from a car they believe may have been used in Dublin’s latest gangland style murder.

Detectives investigating Dublin’s latest gangland style murder are trawling through evidence in a bid to find a motive.