A man died of a heart attack minutes after he was believed to have been involved in the robbery of a mechanic’s shop at knifepoint, an inquest heard today.

A five-month-old baby choked to death after the pram he was sleeping in partially collapsed, an inquest heard today.

The teenager accused of murdering Alan Higgins allegedly admitted to stabbing the schoolboy, telling gardaí: "I just stabbed the bloke. Very sorry. I am very sorry. It wasn’t meant to happen that way," the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Publication of the identity of a former teacher who used pornographic videos to influence young boys under the influence of cannabis when giving them private grinds has been prohibited by order of Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who stabbed a young Dublin computer analyst said he was handed a knife by his friend as he left a party and intended only to defend himself and “put frighteners” on a couple of young men waiting outside for him, a murder trial heard today.