A consultant forensic psychiatrist has told the jury in the trial of a 42-year-old Louth woman charged with murdering her partner last year that the accused had the capacity to form intent and was not impaired by her mental disorder on the night of the offence.

A 42-year-old woman accused of murdering her boyfriend last year has denied making up allegations of a sexual assault on the night of the incident.

A High Court judge has awarded €450,000 damages to a woman after finding her life was devastated as a result of being sexually abused by a man over a 10-year period, beginning when she was just four years old.

A woman has told the High Court how her life “was ruined” and her “childhood stolen” by a man who sexually abused her over a 10-year period.