A father accused of the murder of his 20-month-old son was suffering from an abnormality of the mind at the time he took his son by the feet and swung his head against a kitchen wall, a consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court.

The wife of a man accused of murdering their 20-month-old son considered committing him to a mental hospital in the months before the killing, a jury has heard.

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 toddler died from extensive brain damage and multiple fractures to the skull consistent with "multiple severe impact to the head", a murder trial heard today.

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.

A murder trial jury has been sworn in to try a foreign national, with an address in Co Kildare, who is accused of murdering his 20-month-old baby son.