The Court of Criminal Appeal today heard that the jury who convicted a Dublin man of the double murder of two Polish mechanics arrived at their verdict appropriately, having been given fair and balanced directions by the trial judge.

A friend of two Polish men’s killer came up with an alibi for him hours after he stabbed the mechanics in their heads.

A Drimnagh teenager stabbed two Polish mechanics through their heads, possibly with a screwdriver, outside their Dublin home on a February evening two years ago, it has emerged.

A 16-year-old male from Limerick has been sentenced to 10 years by the Central Criminal Court for the brutal murder of a man who knocked over his bottle of beer.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been listening to closing speeches from both the prosecution and the defence at the trial of a man accused of murder and a woman accused of burning the deceased man’s clothes.

The jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering his estranged partner in April last year has begun to hear closing speeches in the case and are expected to retired to consider their verdicts this afternoon.

The trial of a Turkish barber charged with murdering his estranged partner in front of their son will proceed on Monday with 11 jurors, after one juror was discharged yesterday afternoon.

Military manuals including weaponry and explosive information were found in the flat of a Carlow man accused of IRA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Waterford man was sentenced to four years in prison for killing his brother on New Year’s Day in 2003, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Senior officers have identified each of the three gardaí on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of beating a 2002 Reclaim the Streets protestor on the head with their batons.