A former mental health nurse who strangled and butchered a dog and fed it to a pet is psychopathic, a doctor has said.

The jury is due to begin deliberating in the trial of an electrician accused of the fatal shooting of a bread deliveryman in Limerick three years ago.

The trial of a dentist and his ex-lover accused of murdering their partners in the North nearly 20 years ago has had to be delayed because of a hold-up in obtaining psychiatric reports.

The jury at the trial of a young Cavan man accused of murder has been listening to closing speeches from the prosecution and the defence at the Central Criminal Court today.

An former British Army soldier who hanged himself in jail might still be alive if staff had taken his shoelaces, an inquest jury found today.