A woman has today described to a jury how she recalled staring up at a Christmas tree while a man sexually assaulted her in a room with other people.

Clare’s three-time All Star goalkeeper Seamus Durack believes the All-Ireland final replay has been demeaned by its Saturday evening throw-in.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing his sister 40 years ago have heard the man “vehemently” denied the allegations when interviewed by gardaí.

A woman who alleges that she was sexually abused by her older brother during her childhood has told a jury that she started going to the toilet in a friend’s back garden to avoid her sibling.

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

The jury in the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin of a man charged with the murder of a Cork mother of three will resume its deliberations tomorrow following one hour of deliberation.

A 47-year-old man accused of the murder of a Cork woman in her home on Easter Sunday last year told a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today that the person who carried out the murder as a “ complete psychopath”.

A MOTHER of three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A mother-of-three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley and the door of a microwave oven after being knocked to the ground, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The doctor who examined an alleged rape victim has said she gave no history to him of any struggle, a court has heard.

The jury in the case of a father-of-two on trial for murdering his neighbour whom he said had threatened to kill his family will begin its deliberations on Monday.

A man on trial for murdering his neighbour on a July morning outside his Co Clare home, rang his father saying "I killed him in the garden", the jury in the case has heard.

The doctor who examined a woman at the centre of a rape allegation has told a Central Criminal Court jury that there was no forensic evidence of a rape having taken place.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the rape and sexual assault of an 18-year-old girl who was on a night out in Kilkenny.

A Garda has claimed that a man accused of manslaughter admitted that three men got out of his car at the scene of the subsequent killing but he drove off before anything happened because he wanted nothing to do with it.

The State Pathologist has told a manslaughter trial that an Estonian man died due to blunt force trauma to his head and neck.

THE GAA has to address the issue of people being paid to manage club teams, former Clare goalkeeper Seamus Durack warned at the Bord Gais Energy-sponsored Munster GAA awards presentation on Saturday night.

A 26-year-old north Dublin criminal has been jailed for 11 years for the manslaughter of an Estonian man attacked as he sat with his girlfriend watching planes take off from Dublin airport.

A Lithuanian national has been remanded in custody pending sentence for the oral rape of a German national in Galway city almost four years ago.

Oscar Bay looked a horse with Aintree potential as he sparked a big-priced Stratford double for jockey Seamus Durack.

Closing speeches have been heard in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Clonmel man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend.

The trial of a 30-year-old man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in a bedroom in her Tipperary home last year has begun at the Central Criminal Court.

There was a massive shock at Haydock as Snoopy Loopy took advantage of a last-fence exit by Kauto Star to land the Grade One Betfair Chase.

The trial of a man accused of kicking another man to death then setting fire to his body has entered its closing stages in the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man accused of kicking another man to death in a derelict mansion and then burning the body told gardaí that he killed his friend because he insulted his family.

The trial has begun of a Dublin man accused of killing another man then setting fire to the body in an abandoned mansion in Clontarf in August 2007.

The jury at the trial of a man accused of murdering his friend in a campervan beside a lake in Westmeath are expected to retire yesterday to consider their verdict.

A Meath man accused of murder telephoned gardaí and told them he killed his friend “because he would not give him cocaine”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Garda chiefs were today accused of extensively bugging custody rooms, cars, apartments and phones for many years by a long-serving officer.

Seamus Durack’s rehabilitation from injury has finally been given a boost after he successfully underwent surgery on Monday.

Seamus Durack’s plans for a return to action have been put on hold as he may now require further surgery on the injuries he suffered in a fall at Towcester in the spring.

CONNECTIONS of Philson Run are looking to Seamus Durack to produce their charge as late as possible in the Gala Casinos Daily Record Scottish Grand National at Ayr tomorrow.

Colin Tizzard has set his sights on winning another National after taking the Tote-sponsored Sussex version at Plumpton with Jeremy Spider.

A Somalian man today admitted holding his baby son by the feet and hitting his head off a wall after evil spirits told him to "hit him, hit him".

Two former co-workers of murder accused John Crerar told his trial that they saw him washing out the boot of his car with boiling water days after the disappearance of Kildare woman, Phyllis Murphy, over 22 years ago.

A former member of the defence forces who worked as a security guard with John Crerar on the night Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy disappeared has told a jury he lied to gardai when he provided an alibi for Mr Crerar back in 1980.

A 20-year-old Louth man accused of the murder of his infant nephew told gardai that he had strangled the child before trussing him up with rope and dropping him off a railway bridge into the water below, the Central Criminal Court heard today.