The jury in the case of a father-of-two on trial for murdering his neighbour whom he said had threatened to kill his family will begin its deliberations on Monday.

A close relative of a man accused of murdering his neighbour with a double-barrelled shotgun has told his trial today that he only had the gun in his possession because she had asked him to mind it.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a man on trial for murder told gardaí he shot his neighbour four times because he had been “making threats about cutting up my wife and kids.”

The trial of a Clare man accused of fatally shooting a neighbour four times with a shotgun has heard the deceased had a fearsome reputation.

A man on trial for murdering his neighbour on a July morning outside his Co Clare home, rang his father saying "I killed him in the garden", the jury in the case has heard.

A 25-year-old father of two has gone on trial charged with murdering a man who was found shot dead in the garden of the accused’s house in Co Clare.