A section of internal wall with a bloodied fingerprint removed from a murder scene was dramatically produced in a courtroom yesterday and shown to the jury.

Around 60 men were asked to give DNA samples in the investigation into the murders of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika.

The trial of a Lithuanian man accused of murdering a mother and daughter, also from Lithuania, at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee has been shown CCTV footage of his movements on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

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Marius Lubys, the husband of Jolanta and father of Enrika, told how they had married in 2004 in Lithuania and Enrika had been born in February 2005.

Murdered mum Jolanta Lubiene had her tickets booked to return permanently to Lithuania in July last year, her sister said yesterday.

A 27-year-old forestry worker accused of murdering a mother and her daughter visited her home twice in the days prior to the date of the alleged crime and had sexual contact with her, a court has heard.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in continuing custody charged with the murders of a young mother and her eight-year-old daughter in Co Kerry.

The Lithuanian man charged with a double murder in Killorglin, Co. Kerry will appear in court again today.

Devastated parents and a distraught young father were foremost among the mourners who wept and watched as a mother and her daughter, murdered in Co Kerry, were laid to rest in a hillside grave outside the tiny Lithuanian village of Gedrimai yesterday.

The funerals of Jolanta Lubiene and her 8 year old daughter Enrika take place in Lithuania today.

The family stood silently as the plain van with blackened windows drew up.

It could be Ireland.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged last night with the double killing of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter in Co Kerry.

A 26-year-old man was last night charged with the double killing of a mother, originally from Lithuania, and her young daughter, at their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry, two weeks ago.

Gardaí in Kerry are continuing to question a 26-year-old man in connection with the double murder of a mother and daughter.

A man in his 40s is being held by Gardaí in Kerry in relation to the murder of 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene and her 8-year-old daughter Enrika over a week ago.

A man in his 40s arrested at his home in Killorglin yesterday in connection with a double murder in the Kerry town may have information in relation to a suspect leaving the country.

Gardaí believe the public hold vital information on last week’s double murder in Kerry, writes Donal Hickey

A 1,000-strong congregation burst into spontaneous applause last night after hearing heartfelt tributes to a mother and daughter brutally murdered at the weekend.

Sentences must be seen to fit a crime, both for a victim’s family and society, writes John O’Keeffe

A cuddly white teddy, a bunch of flowers, a framed photograph of a mother and daughter happy together, and a candle lamp — symbols of a family’s love for two people savagely murdered.

A double murder investigation involving more than 50 gardaí got under way in Killorglin, Co Kerry, after autopsies confirmed a Lithuanian woman and her young daughter had died violently.

Gardaí are carrying out house-to-house inquiries in Co Kerry following the discovery of the bodies of a young mother and daugher in a house in Killorglin on Sunday.

A double murder investigation is expected to be launched in Killorglin, Co Kerry today, following the grim discovery of the bodies of a young mother and her daughter in a house in the town on Sunday night.

A 27-year-old woman found murdered in her rented home in Killorglin, Co Kerry, had been looking forward to returning permanently to her native Lithuania in the coming weeks.

A 28-year-old Polish man, who stabbed a shop worker to death outside a nightclub in Galway, has been convicted of murder.

A Polish man on trial for murdering a young Co Galway shop assistant in 2009, told Gardaí he was so drunk on the night he had no recollection of any incident or of having stabbed anyone.

TWO Lithuanian men were arrested yesterday over the murder of a woman whose severed head was found in a plastic bag on a Scottish beach.

President Aleksander Kwasniewski told cheering supporters today that Poland has fulfilled its aspirations to return to Europe, after exit polls showed an overwhelming 82% voting ’yes’ to EU membership.