A jury in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing his sister 40 years ago have heard the man “vehemently” denied the allegations when interviewed by gardaí.

A woman who alleges that she was sexually abused by her older brother during her childhood has told a jury that she started going to the toilet in a friend’s back garden to avoid her sibling.

A former Taoiseach ordered Garda chiefs not to co-operate with an investigation into an IRA attack which killed 18 British soldiers in 1979, it has been alleged at a tribunal.

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

The jury in the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin of a man charged with the murder of a Cork mother of three will resume its deliberations tomorrow following one hour of deliberation.

A 47-year-old man accused of the murder of a Cork woman in her home on Easter Sunday last year told a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today that the person who carried out the murder as a “ complete psychopath”.

A MOTHER of three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A POSTMORTEM examination on a man who died in hospital after being hit with a hurley revealed he had drugs in his system at the time, a court heard yesterday.

The doctor who examined an alleged rape victim has said she gave no history to him of any struggle, a court has heard.

A friend of an alleged rape victim, has denied that he was “making up a story” while giving evidence.

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.

The doctor who examined a woman at the centre of a rape allegation has told a Central Criminal Court jury that there was no forensic evidence of a rape having taken place.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of the rape and sexual assault of an 18-year-old girl who was on a night out in Kilkenny.

A 26-year-old north Dublin criminal has been jailed for 11 years for the manslaughter of an Estonian man attacked as he sat with his girlfriend watching planes take off from Dublin airport.

A young Estonian woman broke down in tears at the Central Criminal Court today as she recalled seeing two strangers drag her boyfriend from his car and kick him to death.

A Lithuanian national has been remanded in custody pending sentence for the oral rape of a German national in Galway city almost four years ago.

THE two brothers on trial for murdering a man known as ‘English Jim’ in Killarney were found not guilty of murder and guilty of manslaughter yesterday.

Closing speeches have been heard in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Clonmel man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend.

The jury in the trial of a Clonmel man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend has heard that the key prosecution witness told a friend that she was not sure who committed the killing.

The jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend has heard that no evidence of value was found during a forensic examination of the scene.

The trial of a 30-year-old man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in a bedroom in her Tipperary home last year has begun at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial has begun of a Dublin man accused of killing another man then setting fire to the body in an abandoned mansion in Clontarf in August 2007.

A 29-year-old Meath man who inexplicably killed his friend after a day of drinking and taking drugs together has been jailed for four years at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury at the trial of a man accused of murdering his friend in a campervan beside a lake in Westmeath are expected to retire yesterday to consider their verdict.

A Meath man accused of murder telephoned gardaí and told them he killed his friend “because he would not give him cocaine”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A bench warrant has been issued for a Lithuanian national who failed to appear at the Central Criminal Court for trial for allegedly raping a Galway woman and who is also wanted for a serious offence in his home country.

A private investigator key to exposing the Garda corruption that sparked the Morris Tribunal was today branded an unreliable witness by the inquiry.

A LABOUR TD yesterday said he has no regrets that unsubstantiated allegations against a senior member of An Garda Síochána led to the setting up of the Morris Tribunal.

IT TOOK a considerable amount of nerve for a junior Donegal garda to report her suspicions that a superior had forged a signature on a murder confession, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Garda chiefs were today accused of extensively bugging custody rooms, cars, apartments and phones for many years by a long-serving officer.

A witness to the Morris Tribunal could face criminal proceedings if it is decided he has obstructed the hearing, the chairman warned today.

A key witness told the Morris Tribunal today he was afraid of a garda sergeant who he claimed prompted him to make a maze of false allegations.

THE McBrearty family yesterday protested about being excluded from confidential discussions about garda informants at the Morris Tribunal.

The McBrearty family today protested about being excluded from confidential discussions about Garda informants at the Morris Tribunal.

The wife of a man accused of the murder of their 20-month-old son in an apartment in Clane, Co Kildare two years ago has told his trial that she didn’t want to leave her son alone with him.

A Somalian father was not legally insane at the time he killed his 20-month-old son, a consultant psychiatrist at the Central Mental Hospital told a murder trial jury today.

A Somalian man today admitted holding his baby son by the feet and hitting his head off a wall after evil spirits told him to "hit him, hit him".

A former asylum seeker allegedly lifted his baby son out of bed and took him into another room where the child was beaten to death, a murder trial heard today.

Two former co-workers of murder accused John Crerar told his trial that they saw him washing out the boot of his car with boiling water days after the disappearance of Kildare woman, Phyllis Murphy, over 22 years ago.

A Co Limerick youth told gardai that a tragic teenager stumbled and hit his head on the ground after he struck him on the side of the head, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

The trial judge in a case of a Louth man charged with murdering his infant nephew today complained that the law on insanity in Ireland is rooted in the 1800s and that the legislature has been slow to change it.

A 20-year-old Louth man accused of the murder of his infant nephew told gardai that he had strangled the child before trussing him up with rope and dropping him off a railway bridge into the water below, the Central Criminal Court heard today.