A murderer found with an improvised knife under his prison cell mattress has failed in a High Court challenge to his jail disciplinary hearing.

The man who triggered the Dublin Lockout should be judged on all of his achievements and not just on his role in Ireland’s greatest industrial conflict, his descendants have said.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of stabbing the deceased after a fight at a phone box will resume their deliberations tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court after being sent to a hotel tonight.