STATE pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy told a murder trial that the injuries she found on the body of a stab victim suggested he suffered a “sustained and violent assault”.

A MAN told gardaí investigating a fatal stabbing that he “snapped” when he saw another man in bed with his ex-girlfriend and two-year-old child, a court has heard.

A WOMAN has told a court how she heard a man alleged to have been fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend begging his alleged attacker to stop.

A WOMAN who was stabbed in the leg during an incident in which a 27-year-old man was killed allegedly told gardaí her ex-boyfriend carried out the attacks, a court heard yesterday.

A FATHER of three who found his ex-partner in bed with another man got two knives from her kitchen and stabbed the other man while one of the children was still asleep in the bed, a murder trial has heard.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny had the minor advantage of familiarity when he lined up alongside golf’s golden boy Rory McIlroy for the glamour Irish Open Pro-Am in Killarney yesterday.

NEARLY 160 jobs are to be created in Galway over the next three years in a major jobs boost for the county.

Some 145 jobs are to be created at a green energy firm manufacturing small scale wind turbines for farms, factories and homes.

A 24-year-old Waterford man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a father-of-one in June.

An Irish engineering firm is to create 250 jobs after developing unique wind turbines which generate power even in a light breeze, it was revealed today.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

A SCHOOLGIRL and her little brother died in a crash yesterday — the last victims in what was among the most deadly Februarys on our roads in recent years.

Three Brazilian men tonight appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a man found on a roadside in Kildare Town early on Saturday morning.

ALL former members are invited to the centenary reunion of one of Dublin's most famous choirs – the Pro-Cathedral’s Palestrina Choir.

By Jim O’Sullivan AGAINST different opposition, Kilcormac/Killoughey might at least have been competitive over a longer period in yesterday’s Offaly county hurling final in St Brendan’s Park.