The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife ten years ago has heard that the dead woman was besotted with her younger lover, the Central Criminal Court heard.

The man accused of killing his wife ten years exaggerated his level of drunkenness when gardaí called to his home, the Central Criminal Court heard.

The unavailability of the former State Pathologist Professor John Harbison will not create any difficulties in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife 10 years ago, the Central Criminal Court was told.

Assets belonging to drugs smuggler John Gilligan valued at €17m should be confiscated as a matter of public interest, the Supreme Court was told today.

The trial of a 34-year-old man accused of the murder of another man in a Dublin bar has heard the issue of insanity arises in the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

One of two Dublin men accused of murder told gardaí he “doesn’t know” how his fingerprint ended up on the double-barrelled shotgun that killed a 65-year-old grandmother, the Central Criminal Court today.

Two prosecution witnesses accused gardaí of “putting words in their mouths” after their statements implicating two Dublin men accused of murdering a 65-year-old woman were read out at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 65-year-old woman shot to death in her bedroom had moved to sleep in that bedroom because “she thought she would be safer” there, her daughter told the trial of two Dublin men accused of her murder, at the Central Criminal Court today.

An eye-witness has testified that he saw a murder accused "belting" and "thumping" a man in the stomach and chest in the stairway of his house, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

Contempt of court proceedings are being taken against three newspapers over their reporting of the Brian Murphy manslaughter trail.

The principal of Blackrock College has told the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial that he met one of the accused and another former student the morning after the incident and they wrote down their versions of what happened.

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A promotions company steward who was working at a popular disco on the night an 18-year-old student was kicked to death has told a jury he saw a youth wearing similar clothes to the deceased punch another youth before a big fight broke out.

An alleged confession made by a Galway traveller who was "liable to making false confessions" was the only piece of evidence in the murder case against him, a defence counsel told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 30 year-old Galway man accused of murdering his cousin was “a very vulnerable person” with a mild to moderate mental handicap, a defence witness told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A traveller who was murdered in his bed during a dawn raid on his caravan by two men wearing balaclavas, died from two close-range gunshot wounds to his chest, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The murder trial of a Galway traveller ground to a halt on its first day today when up to six garda witnesses failed to appear at the Central Criminal Court.

A traveller accused of murdering a cousin at a halting site in Laois four years ago was the driver of the getaway car for two men who broke into the victim's caravan and shot him twice as he lay in bed, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A murder trial jury will retire tomorrow to consider its verdict in the case of a 22 year-old Carlow man on trial for the murder of a teenage father-of-one.

A witness has told a murder trial jury that he saw a Carlow man accused of murder stabbing the deceased man in the neck, the shoulder and the back.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead youth tried to have sex with her two weeks before her son allegedly stabbed him to death.

A verdict is expected Friday in the case of a Co Louth man accused of membership of an illegal organisation.