A MAN who went on the run for 14 years after being involved in a fatal assault was jailed yesterday for his part in the crime.

A Louth man told a close friend that he had cut another man's throat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A forensic witness in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Co Louth man accused of stabbing another man in the neck with a shard of glass has said that blood-stained clothing belonging to the accused could have been consistent with him checking the victim's pulse.

The trial has started in the Central Criminal Court of a homeless man accused of stabbing another man in the jugular vein with a shard of glass.

Gardaí have rearrested a murder suspect freed from prison last week when the Director of Public Prosecutions failed to produce a Book of Evidence in time.