An Irish computer analyst who fled to Spain in the wake of his wife’s death today pleaded guilty to her murder.

MARY WHELAN had eight of her 10 daughters with her on her birthday trip to Rome.

THE tiny village of Lemybrien was a sombre place to be yesterday as visibly upset locals endeavoured to come to terms with the murder of one of their own.

The heartbroken mother of murder victim Mary Whelan spoke tonight of her yearning for an end to the marathon ordeal which has left the family shattered.

SIX months after the wedding photo, left, was taken, Mary Whelan was strangled to death in the family home, and her husband Colin was the prime suspect.

A man who disappeared from Co Dublin while awaiting trial for the murder of his wife has been discovered on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca.

IRAN has made an official complaint to the Irish embassy in Tehran following EU criticism of the country’s human rights record.

A man in his late twenties will appear before Swords District Court in Dublin this morning, charged in connection with the murder of a woman in Balbriggan last month.

A man in his twenties has been arrested in Dublin in connection with the murder of Mary Whelan in Balbriggan last month.

Gardai have said they are now treating the death of a 27-year-old woman, found dead in north Co Dublin earlier this week, as murder.

A man is still being questioned by Gardai in Dublin in connection with the death of a 42-year-old man whose body was found in a house in South Dublin.

Gardai in Dublin are treating as suspicious the discovery of the bodies of two people in separate parts of Dublin yesterday.