A mother who was suffering from a personality disorder described her two-year-old son as a "fake child" on the day she killed him by stabbing a pair of scissors into his neck, a court heard today

A journalist has claimed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a man accused of threatening to kill him told him: "You will be meeting Veronica Guerin."

A journalist has claimed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a man accused of threatening to kill him told him: "You will be meeting Veronica Guerin."

The trial of two Dublin men accused of stabbing a man to death heard gardaí describe the victim's sitting room as a "bloodbath" in an interview with one of the accused, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

HOMOPHOBIA in Ireland? Regretfully, we have a long, long way to go, as indicated by Niall Murray's article (Irish Examiner, February 20).