Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Joe O'Reilly is going to apply to the Supreme Court to hear an appeal against his conviction for murdering his wife Rachel at their Dublin home in 2004.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

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Joe O'Reilly’s development company has been added as a party to one of the strands of a legal action aimed at protecting buildings on Dublin’s Moore Street.

Ten years after the murder of Rachel O'Reilly, her husband Joe O'Reilly is applying to have his conviction for her murder declared a miscarriage of justice.

A large group of people turned out to show their support for staff of the Paris Bakery on Moore Street in Dublin today.

The Court of Appeal has struck out a new legal challenge taken by wife-killer Joe O'Reilly because it is taking so long to prepare.

Lawyers for the State say there will be significant opposition to any bail application by convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly.

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly intends to apply for bail, as part of his miscarriage of justice case.

A random audit of expenses of 12 members of the Oireachtas has led to €16,000 being handed back after it was found that some of the expenses claimed could not be properly accounted for.

An application by convicted wife murderer Joe O'Reilly for legal aid in order to take a miscarriage of justice case, was granted in the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Joe O'Reilly, who was convicted of murdering his wife in 2004, has yet to secure lawyers as part of his bid to have his conviction overturned as a miscarriage of justice.

Descendents of the 1916 leaders will visit the GPO today to highlight an ongoing campaign to save the historic GPO / Moore Street battlefield from destruction.

One of the golden circle of businessmen lent money by Anglo Irish Bank to buy shares in the rogue lender has been ordered to help a fraud investigation.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly has today lost his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin.

A man will find out today if his conviction for the murder of his wife is overturned.

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly will learn on Friday if his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin has been successful.

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly will have to wait to the New Year before his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin has been successful.

The Court of Criminal Appeal will today hear the appeal by Joe O'Reilly against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel in north Co Dublin in October 2004.

The appeal by Joe O'Reilly against his conviction for the murder of his wife, Rachel, will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal next Thursday.

A date has been set for the hearing of an appeal by Joe O'Reilly against his conviction last year for the murder of his wife, Rachel.

Fianna Fáil has picked up four more Seanad seats this morning in the industrial and commercial panel.

An attempt by the prosecution on Friday to revoke Joe O'Reilly's bail and keep him in custody until the jury had finished their deliberations was rejected by the Judge.

Dubliner Joe O’Reilly was tonight convicted of murdering his wife Rachel after a four-week trial that gripped Ireland.

Joe O'Reilly has been found guilty of murdering his wife Rachel O'Reilly.

The jury in the trial of Joe O'Reilly will resume its deliberations later this morning.

Defence counsel in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly today warned the jury against being swayed by media attention to the case.

The judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly has told the jury that the evidence in the case has concluded.

The judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly has told the jury not to discuss the case with anyone outside the jury or to allow anyone outside the jury to talk to them about it.

CCTV footage shows a car matching the description of Joe O'Reilly's Fiat Marea near the O'Reilly home on the morning of the murder, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly today told the jury to ignore media reports of the case, as they are to reach their verdict only on the evidence they hear in court.

Voice messages left on Rachel O'Reilly's mobile phone on the day she was brutally murdered were read out in court today.

The woman with whom murder accused Joe O'Reilly was having an affair told the jury in the Central Criminal Court today that they were planning a 'permanent future' together.

Murder accused Joe O'Reilly told gardaí that he had his phone with him all day on the day his wife Rachel died, the jury in the Central Criminal Court trial heard today.

Emails read out in court have revealed murder accused Joe O'Reilly's was "repulsed" by his dead wife and wanted to separate from her, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Phone analysis places the mobile of Joe O'Reilly's co-worker in the vicinity of the Broadstone bus garage on the morning of the murder and is consistent with the account he gave gardaí.

Joe O’ Reilly told gardaí that he had an affair but that it was over by the time his wife Rachel was found murdered at the family home in north Dublin, a jury heard today.