A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that the child had suffered severe brain damage.

A Co. Wicklow farmer suffering from Parkinson’s syndrome has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his older brother in a row over their mother’s burial wishes.

The trial of a Co Wicklow farmer who denies murdering his brother in a row over his mother’s burial wishes has heard "dementia impaired his judgement".

The trial of a man accused of murdering a teenager in a bar on Arranmore Island has now reached its closing stages in the Central Criminal Court.

TWO late points by Tony Dineen and Stephen Down gave DLS Macroom victory in this entertaining Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final at Rathmore yesterday.

The non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin has asked for permission to hear evidence in Northern Ireland in the trial of a Belfast man accused of shooting dead a man in the city last year.

Three alleged Real IRA members were arrested after a major garda surveillance organisation against the dissident terrorist organisation, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The main thing on the mind of a 28 year-old Limerick man when he stabbed another man was "to get away from him", a murder trial jury heard today.

THE press officer of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin has been fired following her public condemnation of an Israeli air attack on Gaza City in a letter to the Irish Examiner.