A businessman who used a form of cheque fraud known as “kiting” in an effort to keep his failing business afloat has received a suspended sentence.

One of seven Dubliners charged with murdering a man, who was beaten to death, said the deceased was already ‘black and blue and bleeding from his eyes’ before he punched him.

A pregnant Dublin woman who assaulted two brothers with the heel of her stiletto shoe has avoided a jail term.

Cormac O’Keeffe catalogues the painstaking policing and investigative work, as well as the chance discoveries, that contributed to the conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. (This article was originally published in March 2015)

The jury in the Graham Dwyer trial has seen a photograph of Elaine O’Hara’s punctured and blood-stained mattress, which Gardaí found following the discovery of her remains in September 2013.