A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend told his friend to wipe the numbers and messages on his mobile phone moments before gardaí arrested him, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A man who was dying from stab wounds to his torso refused to say how he suffered the injuries when a garda asked for a “dying declaration”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Ireland eventing manager Nick Turner believes he has a “strong team of horses and riders” carrying Irish hopes in the nations cup at Aachen, Germany, this weekend.

A consultant forensic psychiatrist has told the jury in the trial of a 42-year-old Louth woman charged with murdering her partner last year that the accused had the capacity to form intent and was not impaired by her mental disorder on the night of the offence.

A woman accused of murder told gardaí she got a knife and “stuck it in” her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A 42-year-old Louth woman accused of murder told gardaí that she got a knife and "stuck it in" her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung, a murder trial has heard.

A jury has heard how a woman accused of murdering her partner in Co Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

Irish show jumpers drove to victory across Europe at the weekend, with Jessica Kurten in the driving seat when claiming a €40,000 Subaru car in the grand prix in Odense, Copenhagen.

Ireland’s eventers booked their place in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics yesterday when finishing sixth and securing the last qualifying place at the Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, France.

Shane Breen was taking a lead from his horse’s name yesterday as he prepared for the first Chinese leg of the Global Champions Tour.

Sarah Ennis was "in shock" yesterday after achieving the biggest win of her career at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England.

A woman claims she had a “near death experience” when she began to haemorrhage internally after her baby was delivered by caesarean section.

A convicted rapist and kidnapper who left the country during his Central Criminal Court trial in 2007 has been sentenced to twelve years with the final four years suspended.

Britain’s Phillip Miller, riding Caritiar Z, provided the only clear in the Hickstead Derby yesterday to deny Ireland its second successive win in the famed competition, as four faults left Tipperary’s Trevor Breen equal second on the one-eyed Adventure De Kannan.

Tipperary brothers Trevor and Shane Breen were denied a one-two in the grand prix at the three-star show in Hardelot, France, yesterday.

A horse ridden by an Irish show jumper is believed to have tested positive for a prohibited substance earlier this year.

A Dublin man on trial for murder was allegedly hired to gun down 31-year-old Aidan Byrne, who was shot 10 times near an estate off the North Circular Road.

A man accused of raping his 65-year-old mother says he had consensual sex with her and denies taking advantage.

Irish scientists have found that the happy hormone — serotonin — is regulated by the amount of gut bacteria in childhood.

A man accused of raping his 65-year-old mother said today that he had consensual sex with her but denies taking advantage of her.

AN “independent” review of ShowjumpingIreland’s (SJI) insurance policy has been initiated by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI).

YOUNG rider Gerard Clarke continued his barnstorming run in the HSI Chippison Spring Tour in Barnadown, Co Wexford.

A Dundalk man arrested during garda investigations into dissident republican activity went on trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for IRA membership.

A former shop security man who ambushed a young Polish woman and dragged her to where he had prepared a special “rape-kit” has today received a 12-year sentence with the last three years suspended.

A 54-year-old woman who alleges she was raped by her daughter’s boyfriend has denied falsely making similar accusations about other individuals in the past.

A Wexford man accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting his former partner has told a court that the complainant was “high maintenance” and that he planned to leave her as he could not support her lifestyle any longer.

A Wexford man accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting his former partner told gardaí that he had been beaten up by the woman on at least one occasion and claimed that she was “good with the hands” when angered.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard how a woman who alleges she was orally raped and sexually assaulted by her former partner cut her wrist when the accused man told her he wanted to end their relationship on a previous occasion.

A Waterford man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of raping his wife’s niece 13 year ago.

A Lithuanian national accused of murder allegedly told a security guard at a night club that he had "caught up" with the deceased and "stabbed him up".

A Waterford businessman who raped a Croatian prostitute in a local upmarket hotel after hiring her by phone through a Cork-based escorts agency has been given a five years sentence by Mr Justice Barry White.

The daughter of a Waterford man accused of raping and sexually assaulting a schoolgirl has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that the complainant was always in her company at the times of the alleged offences.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that a Waterford man lured a schoolgirl into his bed and raped her over a decade ago.

A Croatian prostitute who was raped by a Waterford businessman has claimed that she has been approached by two Albanian men in her home country who offered her money to withdraw her evidence.

NINE prisoners were charged yesterday with possession of a mobile phone in jail — the first prosecutions under new laws.

AN ex-IRA man with two previous convictions for kidnapping and described as a danger to society and civilisation had his appeal against a 20-year sentence dismissed in the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) yesterday.

The trial of a South African man accused of murdering his Irish born wife has heard the couple’s children that they never saw their father strike their mother.

A 46-year-old Sligo man has been found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of raping his wife just weeks after the birth of their child.

A Sligo man sneered at his wife that "the gardai can’t touch me, I am your husband," when he raped her shortly after the birth of their child, his former wife told the Central Criminal Court.

A twenty-year jail sentence was imposed today on a convicted IRA member for the kidnapping of Gary and Katie O’Donovan at their home in Rochestown, Cork.

A family kidnap trial took a sensational turn today when the man who had denied all charges against him had a change of heart and pleaded guilty to all counts.