Maze prison escapee Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane went on trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for the 1983 kidnapping of supermarket boss Don Tidey during which a trainee garda and soldier were killed.

The trial has started in the Central Criminal Court of a homeless man accused of stabbing another man in the jugular vein with a shard of glass.

The sister of a man shot dead outside her home broke-down in the witness box today as she gave evidence of realising the shouting and gunfire she had heard while trying to sleep, was that of her brother’s killer.

A man accused killing his wife 10 years ago was seen sitting in the back of the car by a neighbour shortly before she was found strangled to death, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a man accused killing his wife ten years has heard that the dead woman died as a result of being strangled.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife ten years ago was told that the dead woman was found with a tie tied tightly around her neck, the Central Criminal Court heard.

A Waterford man who stabbed another man to death with a kitchen knife after intervening in a row over a CD has been found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court.

A 35-year-old man has been found guilty but insane at the Central Criminal Court of the murder of another man in a Dublin bar last year whom he believed raped him.

A judge directed a jury to find one of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother not guilty due to insufficient evidence against the accused, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Two gunmen burst into a west Dublin house smashing windows and kicking through a door before shooting dead a grandmother in her bedroom, a court was told today.

The only man convicted of the manslaughter of teenager Brian Murphy is prepared to go to the Supreme Court to prevent a retrial going ahead, a court heard today.

A LAWYER for the man convicted of the manslaughter of a teenage student outside Anabel's nightclub nearly five years ago told the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday they are baffled as to how the verdicts in the case were rendered.

A 60-year-old Galway man was sentenced to six years for the manslaughter of a "drinking friend" at the Central Criminal court today.

A man accused of stabbing his drinking friend to death in a house in Sligo told a murder trial jury today that he "lost control" after the man threatened to hurt him.

The family of Brian Murphy, who died in a brawl outside a Dublin nightclub, have asked for time to absorb sentences handed down to three people in connection with his death today.

Three former pupils of one of Ireland’s most prestigious schools were being sentenced today, three-and-a-half years after a teenager was killed in a drunken brawl.

One of four former public schoolboys tried in connection the death of an 18-year-old student was cleared today of manslaughter.

A prosecuting barrister in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial has urged the jury to leave all feeling of sympathy aside and to decide the outcome of the case on the evidence it heard in the witness box.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial told gardaí that a co-accused was "giving it his all" as he delivered four or five hard punches to the deceased youth, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial lied in his garda statement because he didn't want to be blamed for the serious part of the fight that led to the death of the 18-year-old student, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial admitted kicking someone in the head during a fight and hearing his head "snap or crack", a taxi driver has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A friend of Brian Murphy has told the trial of four youths charged with killing him outside the Burlington Hotel that he punched one of the accused a number of times because he believed he was part of a gang attacking him.

A girl who saw student Brian Murphy lying unconscious after he was violently assaulted outside the Burlington Hotel has told a jury that just afterwards she saw two youths holding one of the four accused who are charged with killing him.

An 18-year-old student died from brain damage after he was viciously kicked in the head by a gang of at least four youths outside a well-known Dublin hotel, a court has heard.

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.

Underlying resentment over allegations of sexual assault had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town, a murder trial jury were told today.

Underlying tension and resentment between two men had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town a murder trial jury were told today.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court today that he believed a Co Louth man arrested at the Neptune Beach Hotel last year was a member of an illegal organisation.

A Dublin man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death because he could not tolerate her being in another relationship, a prosecution lawyer has alleged.

A man fitting the description of the hitchhiker a woman claims tried to rape her was seen frantically waving down cars not far from where the alleged attack occurred.

A man petrol bombed a house sparking a fire which killed a 23-month-old boy, a court heard today.