"They don't see us as having the capabilities to take them on."

A woman has been charged with stabbing another woman with a broken bottle in a street attack in Limerick City.

A homeless British man on trial for murdering a young Dubliner, stabbed her in the back six times puncturing her lungs and causing them to collapse, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

A man who served a sentence for the manslaughter of his best friend over a decade ago will be sentenced next week for burglary at St James's Hospital.