A young Cavan man accused of murdering his father told gardaí: “I always had it in my head growing up to kill somebody”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A pro-Kremlin youth group today said it would end a blockade of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow, where activists have been protesting for days over the relocation of a statue of a Soviet soldier in the Estonian capital.

Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis has arrived at the scene in north Dublin where a man was found dead early today.

A MURDER hunt has been launched in Cork city after yesterday’s post- mortem examination showed that the Lithuanian man whose body was found near his rented accommodation on Sunday died from a serious head wound.

THE 18-month delay in making the appointment of a second state pathologist was last night described as “leaving Ireland very dangerously exposed”.