John Pius Boland was a member of the Dublin milling family.

The Maze Prison escapee Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane is set to face trial in connection with the kidnapping of a supermarket boss in 1983 after a Supreme Court judgement went against him today.

A Wexford man who stabbed his sister’s boyfriend to death in a vicious row, during which part of the accused’s ear was bitten off, has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.

A Wexford man accused of murder allegedly stabbed his victim ten times in the body, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with assault in connection with a fatal stabbing in Wexford yesterday.