The jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Clare man accused of murdering his 17-year-old sister has been sent out this morning in the Central Criminal Court to consider its verdict.

A man charged with murdering his 17-year-old sister in Clare will not go on trial until the psychiatric report is ready, it emerged today.

Recent violence in Clare shows that large urban centres do not hold the franchise on crime and violence, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

A 19-year-old man was tonight charged with the murder of his teenage sister, Marguerite O’Dwyer, at their family home in Co Clare.