A mother of two who cut the shoulder blade of a pregnant woman with a broken bottle over some “imagined grievance” has been given a two year suspended sentence.

A JURY foreman yesterday reassured a judge that all 12 jurors were giving a case their full attention.

The palm prints of a Dublin man accused of murder were found at the scene of a fatal stabbing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that firearms residue was found on clothes “similar” to clothes the accused man had been wearing the morning of the alleged murder.

A JURY at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has heard how a forensic scientist found no evidence of DNA from murder accused Brian Kearney on a vacuum cleaner flex found near the body of his wife, Siobhán.

A man who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder, has been jailed for four years after he was caught driving a stolen car and head-butting a garda a week after shooting the 49-year-old man.

An immigration officer has today told a jury that she refused 14 Mauritian nationals entry into the State because she did not believe they were coming to Ireland for a holiday as they claimed.

The Special Criminal Court today rejected an application by the defence to exclude text messages from the evidence against a Co Cork chef accused of IRA membership.