A SPURNED husband who stabbed his ex-wife to death on the day of her divorce party was jailed for life yesterday.

The former policeman whose bus rampage caused the death of a 62-year-old mother was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was being pursued by several police forces and intelligence services.

It is "inconceivable" that a suspect allegedly repeatedly assaulted by gardaí would not tell his family doctor, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A DISMISSED Garda Detective Sergeant has brought a High Court challenge aimed at overturning adverse findings made against him by the Morris Tribunal in its report of an arson attack on a mobile phone mast in Co Donegal, including that it was he who caused a device to be placed on the mast.

A DETECTIVE investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the schoolboy sometime after he dumped the remains.

A Donegal father-of-four accused of the murder of his estranged wife allegedly said to investigating gardaí; "you think I put her in the f**king fire", the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Cork man accused of Real IRA membership denied to gardai that he was a member of the IRA or of anything connected to it, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A MOTHER woke to find her baby dead beside her after ringing in the New Year with half a bottle of champagne, a couple of beers, a quarter of an ecstasy tablet and cannabis.

The partner of a man beaten to death with a pick axe in West Dublin has told the Central Criminal Court that her four-year-old daughter asks her every day "when is daddy coming back?".

A Corkman who was left in a coma after an attack died from a cardiac arrest nine months later "due to head injuries caused by blunt force trauma", the State Pathologist told a murder trial today.

A 21-year old man co-accused of beating a man, who later died, into a coma admitted to gardaí that himself and his friend "just beat him to death".

A 19-year-old Dublin man accused of murder allegedly admitted to gardaí to stabbing the deceased, a jury today heard at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man was today found guilty of the murder of Mr Gerard Hackett, aged 49, at the Central Criminal Court.

The State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, today told a jury at the fourth day of a murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder that the victim "died from head injuries as a result from a sustained and severe assault".

A Corkman accused of murder allegedly admitted to gardaí to killing a man with an axe after the victim attempted to have sex with him, a jury heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

DNA samples taken from a man accused of murdering an 18-month-old infant matched that of the infant, a forensic expert told a murder trial jury today.