Seventeen-year-old Christopher Dunne has been found guilty of the murder of Alan Higgins for his mobile phone at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a 17-year-old Dublin teenager who is accused of the murder of a school boy began today at the Central Criminal Court.

A Roscommon farmer and church sacristan who orally raped and sexually assaulted a young female family friend has been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbot.

A man accused of murdering his uncle on a farm in Kerry "walked in the shadow of his father" and is not responsible for striking the fatal blows which killed the 69-year-old bachelor, a defence lawyer told a jury today.

A Limerick man who admitted stabbing a 22-year-old man in a park in 1999 was found not guilty murder, but guilty of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

The main thing on the mind of a 28 year-old Limerick man when he stabbed another man was "to get away from him", a murder trial jury heard today.

A man accused of the murder of a 22 year-old Limerick man in 1999 today told a jury his “life has been hell” and described how he abused prescription drugs in the months prior to stabbing the deceased.

A 28-year-old Limerick man identified a knife to gardai as the one he used to stab another man with in a park in the city in 1999.

A 22-year-old man who had been stabbed in the chest scaled a park railings before collapsing on the ground from his injuries, a murder trial jury heard today.

An application for the two Dublin men who claim they are being detained illegally by the State was adjourned today after their legal team refused to be searched before entering the court.