Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

ON behalf of the Irish Greyhound Owners & Breeders Federation (IGOBF), I wish to take issue with a number of points raised in the letter from Des Groome (‘Greyhound industry best able to pay and most in need of regulation’, July 6).

I WAS very interested to read the letter (July 6) from Des Groome, a vet in Kildare, whose profession has a vested interest in what Environment Minister John Gormley wished to impose on greyhound-owners.

A 47-year-old Offaly man who fatally stabbed his teenage son during a drunken row was handed a seven-year prison sentence for manslaughter at the Central Criminal court today.

A 47-year-old Offalyman has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of his son at the Central Criminal court today.

A jury in the trial of a father accused of murdering his son over four years ago has retired to begin deliberations on a verdict.

A father’s act of bringing a knife into a fight with his son was “highly dangerous” and constituted criminal negligence, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

The last words of a man who lay dying in his father’s arms after being fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife during a row were heard by a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A frantic 999 call made by the girlfriend of a man killed during a row with his father was played in court for a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A man accused of murdering his son frantically tried to resuscitate him during a 40-minute wait for an ambulance, an eyewitness told a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

The UN war crimes court has heard how a Bosnian Serb waiter locked 65 women, children, babies and old men in a house before setting it alight.