Gardaí realised a homeless woman found dead in Phoenix Park had been stabbed when they lifted her top and saw her wounds, an inquest heard.

Suspected Taliban militants have detonated two bombs which killed a boy, aged between five and seven, outside a school and injuring 10 other people, including five children.

THE judge in the trial of Eamonn Lillis for the murder of his wife, Celine Cawley, said he held neither a sword for the prosecution nor a shield for the defence.

The jury in the Eamonn Lillis murder trial will resume its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning.