A 24-year-old man has been charged with the murder of David Byrne who was shot dead by gunmen during an attack at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on February 5.

A TV fitness guru is facing trial for assaulting his model ex-girlfriend.

The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood was allowed to continue representing himself after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence.

A Dublin man accused of raping a woman he had been dating told gardaí that they had consensual sex but she got mad with him and told him she would "get him" after he refused to bring her to an early house for a drink.

A US military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has sentenced a soldier to death for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion.

A military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sentenced a soldier to death on Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

FIANNA FÁIL last night held onto its three seats in the mid-Roscommon electoral area as the final count of the local elections concluded.