A Dublin teenager has received two life sentences for what was today described as the "brutal and savage" murders of two Polish men.

Nineteen-year-old David Curran is to be sentenced today for stabbing two Polish men in the head with a screwdriver outside their Dublin home.

AN eerie silence in courtroom 19 of the Central Criminal Court was only broken by cries of relief.

A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver.

The jury has been told it can return a majority verdict in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering two Polish men outside their home.

The jury in the trial of two Dublin men accused of the murders of two Polish mechanics will resume its deliberations tomorrow having so far failed to reach a verdict.

The jury in the trial of two Dubliners charged with murdering two Polish men has been told the three teenagers with the defendants were an active catalyst that evening.

A Central Criminal Court jury has been told that if ever there was a case of murder, then the stabbing in the heads of two Polish men outside their home was it.

The killer of two Polish men has today told his murder trial that he stabbed the mechanics in their front garden because one of them shouted at them and he thought they had stabbed his father.

The trial of two Dublin men charged with murdering two Polish mechanics continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury today.

The co-accused in a double murder trial told detectives he was no rat and would not name the person who stabbed two Polish men in the heads with a screw driver.

The teenager who killed two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver, told gardaí that he had seen his co-accused carry out the stabbings.

A friend of two Polish men’s killer came up with an alibi for him hours after he stabbed the mechanics in their heads.

Racist comments were shouted at two Polish mechanics before they were stabbed in their heads with a screwdriver outside their home, a murder trial has heard today.

A teenager who stabbed two mechanics in their heads had spent the day taking drugs and drinking alcohol and had been stabbed himself days earlier.

The State Pathologist has said two Polish men, stabbed outside their home, died of penetrating injuries to their heads, possibly caused by a cross-shaped or Phillips-type screw driver.

A number of witnesses told a Dublin murder trial that they saw or heard two Polish mechanics being killed outside their Dublin home.

At least three concerned citizens tried to prevent a fight minutes before two Polish mechanics were stabbed to death outside their Dublin home.

A Drimnagh teenager stabbed two Polish mechanics through their heads, possibly with a screwdriver, outside their Dublin home on a February evening two years ago, it has emerged.

JUST as Toyosi Shitta-bey, the 15-year-old Nigerian-born student murdered in Dublin just over a week ago was being buried on Thursday another funeral, half a world away, took place.

The Central Criminal Court trial of two youths accused of killing Polish nationals Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos has been adjourned until next term following an application by defence counsel.

A date has been set for the trial of two Dublin teenagers accused of murdering two Polish nationals earlier this year.

ON THE day that a Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish nationals Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos was sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court it has emerged that a fund of €150,000 will be given to the families of the two Polish men.

A Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish nationals Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos was today served with the book of evidence and sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish men Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos will have to wait another four weeks before he is sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

A second youth was today charged over the murder of two Polish men in an attack near their homes earlier this year.

A 17-year-old boy was brought before the Dublin Children’s Court today to face a second murder charge in connection with the killing of two Polish men in February.

The State was today granted a time extension to allow it complete the book of evidence in the case of a 17-year-old boy charged with the murder of a Polish man in Drimnagh, in Dublin in February.

ANN STAFFORD (Letters, March 15) singled out Gay Mitchell MEP for some rather unfair criticism.

A 17-year-old boy charged with the murder of a Polish man in Drimnagh, in Dublin in February, has been further remanded in custody by the Children’s Court pending the preparation of the book of evidence in the case

LET’S start with the spur-of-the-moment murders of Polish men Pawel Kalite — who was buried yesterday — and his friend Marius Szwajkos on February 23.

LAST YEAR St Patrick’s Day drinking led to about 1,000 public order offences, widespread vandalism, some violence and a number of stabbings.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has yet to decide whether four other people are to be charged in connection with the death of two Polish immigrants late last month.

A 16-year-old boy who was questioned by Gardaí in connection with the murder of two Polish men in Dublin last month has been released without charge.

A 16-year-old boy remains in garda custody this morning in connection with the murder of two Polish men in Dublin last month.

A teenager is tonight being quizzed by gardaí investigating the double murder of two young Polish workers in Dublin.

A leading Polish organisation in Ireland has expressed concern about the garda investigation into the murders of Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos in Dublin.

FINE GAEL has called on the Government to mount a targeted six-month operation to “take the knives out of communities”.

A teenage girl questioned about the double murder of two young Polish workers has been released without charge, gardaí said today.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question a teenage girl in connection with the murder of two Polish men in Drimnagh last week.

A SUMMIT of community leaders is urgently needed to tackle the scourge of violence in society, the Archbishop of Dublin said last night.

GARDAÍ are expected to make more arrests in connection with the murder of two Polish men following the detention yesterday of a 14-year-old girl.

Gardaí arrested a teenage girl today in connection with last weekend’s brutal murder of two Polish men in Dublin’s Drimnagh area.

President Mary McAleese will tonight attend a special remembrance service in memory of two young Polish men murdered in a vicious street stabbing.