A woman accused of murdering her husband 23 years ago was told by gardaí in 1996 that she would not be prosecuted, when the 'missing jigsaw piece' was DNA identification.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer has been instructed that the only verdicts open to them are guilty of murder, or guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

A priest who sexually assaulted two of his students nearly 40 years ago has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A south Dublin teenager, accused of the fatal stabbing of another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he saw his friend fall to the ground after he had been fatally stabbed after a night out to celebrate leaving school.

A Meath man accused of murdering his friend, told a doctor he wanted treatment for alcohol addiction one month before the alleged murder, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

A young Cavan man accused of murdering his father has subtle brain difficulties that may result in an inability to control behaviour, a psychologist has told the Central Criminal Court.

A man accused of killing his uncle in a "frenzied" axe attack was a "textbook paranoid schizophrenic" a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man accused of killing his uncle in a "frenzied" axe attack was a "text book paranoid schizophrenic" a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Gardaí who saw the body of a man, whose nephew is on trial in the Central Criminal Court for his murder, described the scene as "horrific".

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a man accused on murdering his wife in south Dublin two years ago have been hearing from emergency service personnel who attended the scene of the death.

A jury has been selected at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to hear the trial of a man charged with murdering his wife on his 49th birthday in 2006.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the prison sentence imposed on a Dublin man who kidnapped and raped a Spanish au pair after it ruling that comments made at the his sentencing hearing by Mr Justice Paul Carney were "inappropriate"and "indefensible."

An attempt by the prosecution on Friday to revoke Joe O'Reilly's bail and keep him in custody until the jury had finished their deliberations was rejected by the Judge.

Joe O'Reilly told gardaí who found his wife's dead body in a pool of blood that one of the dumbells he used for weight-lifting could have been the murder weapon.

A leading construction company has been fined €50,000 for negligence which led to a father of two being killed when a concrete staircase collapsed on him at a building site.

A Kerry man who attempted to rape a teenage girl he on a quiet road has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Co Westmeath man has been jailed for life today for stabbing his wife and two young sons to death after a late-night row in 2001.

A heroin user has denied giving guns to a Dublin man on trial for firearms offences claiming he never met the accused until the trial began.

A High Court judge has ordered a health board to come up with a suitable treatment programme for a psychologically disturbed young man convicted of strangling his mother to death.

A young man accused of murdering his mother told gardai he grabbed her in a headlock and snapped her neck, and knowing she was dead, he strangled her again.