The ex-partner of a fatal stab victim told a court he was often violent towards her, and that he also had a fight with the defendant weeks before the killing.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard today that a young Drogheda man accused of murder “directed” a knife at the father of the child he was babysitting after a row had broken out.

A young Drogheda man accused of murdering the father of the child he was babysitting was “very aggressive, swinging knives”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Louth man who abused his daughter and niece when they were aged four and ten has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A County Down man has been jailed for five years for the manslaughter of a local man he ran over with a stolen car in Dundalk town centre in 2005 following a row over alleged remarks to a woman.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by two Dublin men against their conviction for IRA membership.

Members of the Garda Special Detective Unit pulled over a car at gunpoint and found what an officer believed to be electric timing devices in the boot, the Special Criminal Court has heard.