The trial of a man accused of murdering a man by stabbing him with a broken glass in a bar on Arranmore Island has heard evidence from a pathologist about the cause of death.

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man accused of murdering another man on an island off the coast of Co Donegal two years ago.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his friend has heard the deceased was “abusive” with everyone he came into contact with on the day he was killed.

A Sligo man who was “well-known” to gardaí has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being caught with over €67,000 of cocaine in Co Roscommon.

The former leader of the INLA in Dublin, Declan 'Whacker' Duffy, today publicly turned his back on the terrorist group and pleaded guilty to an INLA membership charge.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court today of threatening that two prison officers at Portlaoise prison would be killed, but he was cleared of assaulting one of the officers.

The Special Criminal Court is expected to give its verdict on Friday in the trial of Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bomb.

A defence counsel for Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, submitted at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that there was "a credibility problem" with interviews conducted by the gardai with the accused.