The autopsy showed the victim’s nose had been completely flattened and seven front teeth were knocked out and two of them ended up in his airways.

Antoinette Corbally, 48, and Clinton Shannon, 30, were shot outside a house in Ballymun on August 16 2017.

'Close family friend' Niall Power has become the second man sentenced to life in prison, after admitting to the murder of mother-of-three Irene White in her Co Louth home.

The defence team representing one of the boys accused of Ana Kriegel's murder asked the trial judge to allow the jury to consider a verdict of manslaughter for their client.

Latest: The jury in the Ana Kriegel trial has been sent home for the evening having deliberated for just over four-and-a-half hours in total.

A young mother of four who died after accidentally overdosing on painkillers had changed a handwritten prescription from her GP to secure a larger quantity of one of her regular medications.

The cause of death at autopsy was compression of the neck with heart disease and acute alcohol and diazepam intoxication as contributory factors.

One of the boys accused of Anastasia Kriegel's murder told a guidance counsellor that he was "dragged into this mess" by his co-accused and repeated about 10 times that he wasn't the last person to see Ana alive, a Central Criminal Court murder trial has heard.

Anastasia Kriegel died from blunt force trauma to the head or from compression of the neck and suffered "a very horrific death", a pathologist has told the trial of the two boys accused of her murder.

The jurors in Ana Kriegel’s murder trial have heard that the schoolgirl had over 50 injuries when her body was found last May.

Desmond Duffy has been found not guilty of the murder of Desmond Sullivan at the home they shared in Somerville Park, Rathmines, Dublin 6 on May 23, 2016.

No criminal charges will be brought in relation to the death of a 24-year-old man shot dead in a case of mistaken identity.

The defence in the case of a man who denies murdering his girlfriend at her home called evidence from a pathologist who suggested the victim died as a result of a stab wound and that smoke inhalation was not a factor.

A man in his 20s has been charged with the murder of a father of four in a bar in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, over the weekend.

The man accused of murdering his girlfriend at her home in Passage West, Co Cork, more than five years ago told gardaí that he snapped, stabbed her in the neck, and set fire to the house.

Detectives were last night seeking to speak to a number of people who are thought to have been with a teenage girl who was subsequently subjected to a violent death.

The barrister for a man charged with murdering another man in his home has suggested that his client was trying to wrestle the knife from his self-harming nephew when it entered the deceased man’s chest.

A 34-year-old man died of blood loss due to a nosebleed described by a doctor as ‘torrential’.

A Central Criminal Court jury has found a Mulhuddart man who admitted stabbing a father-of-one three times not guilty of his murder but guilty of manslaughter.

A man charged with murdering a father-of-one in north Dublin told gardaí that he stabbed the deceased in the side three times with a knife, his trial has heard.

The trial of a man charged with murdering a father-of-one in north Dublin has heard that the deceased suffered 30 knife injuries, six of which were deep and fatal.

LAtest: A 17-year-old boy is being questioned by gardai after a man was stabbed to death in Co Offaly.

A 21-year-old man discovered injured outside a house in Co Mayo last August died of blunt force trauma to the head.

The children of a criminal shot dead in his home told how a man holding a gun entered the kitchen wearing a balaclava before shooting their father dead.

A man who was found dead at his home in West Cork had been helped home by neighbours the night before following an apparent assault.

An investigation is underway after a man died following a crash in Dublin last night.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a man in Co. Mayo on Saturday.

A Mayo man said he poured boiling water over a disabled pensioner’s genitals and beat the victim’s elderly brother in his bed because he thought that, as they were living together, 'maybe’ they were child molesters.

A 30-year-old Mayo man has admitted killing two elderly brothers, who were beaten to death in their Castlebar home four years ago.

"She struggled so hard, I knew I had to kill her, kill her, kill her,” he said.

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the moment a man was shot 18 times with a sub-machine gun in the car park of a pigeon racing club.

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the moment a man was shot 18 times with a sub-machine gun in the car park of a pigeon racing club.

Two human leg bones have been found in a lake in Monaghan as part of the search for the remains of convicted rapist James Nolan.

Residents of a Waterford City apartment block where a man was found dead in suspicious circumstances have expressed their shock at events.

LATEST:The trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a hotel room has heard that she was dressed when her body was found on the floor of Room 346 in the Plaza Hotel.

A “mostly intact” human torso was discovered in a Dublin park following an investigation into the death of convicted rapist James Nolan.

Joao Carvalho (28) died due to blunt force trauma to the head, after he was knocked during a Total Extreme Fighting (TEF) contest at the National Boxing Stadium last April.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that Anne Shortall received at least nine blows, most likely from a hammer, and died from blunt force trauma.

A 56 year old man threatened his family with a samurai sword before using the weapon to inflict a fatal stab wound to himself, an inquest heard.

A manslaughter trial has been abandoned in the latest case to collapse over concerns about evidence by former deputy State pathologist, Dr Khalid Jaber.

The sentences handed down at Limerick Circuit Court on December 15 to two cousins, who were involved in a burglary in which the bachelor homeowner died of a heart attack when he went to challenge the intruders, is to be appealed by the DPP as unduly lenient.

A teenager died of injuries he sustained in a row with his younger brother while watching a rugby match, an inquest has heard.

A teenager died of injuries he sustained in a row with his younger brother while watching a rugby match, an inquest has heard. 

A man has been arrested after the death of an eastern European man in Waterford.