The State has been given extra time to complete a book of evidence in the case of a retired consultant surgeon who denies indecently assaulting 16 young males over a 26-year period.

A 26-year old Dublin man who killed his mother two years ago was jailed for life yesterday by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder of a Jordanian man who he shot in the head at the Leisureplex in Dublin's Blanchardstown.

A man accused of murdering a profoundly deaf young man told gardai that he repeatedly punched the victim but that he never intended to kill him, a garda witness told the Central Criminal Court today.