At times during her evidence to the Disclosures Tribunal yesterday, the woman known as Ms D was emotional.

Peter Charleton asked a witness at the Disclosures Tribunal whether she was aware that Leo Varadkar was the Taoiseach. The witness, a social worker, confirmed that she was aware of this. She also knew Enda Kenny was the previous Taoiseach, writes Michael Clifford

The grief-stricken sister of a woman stabbed to death by her ex-partner has called for greater legal protection for women in abusive relationships.

The grief-stricken sister of a young mother who was savagely stabbed to death by her violent ex-partner has called for greater legal protection for women in abusive relationships.

A man who punched a barrister during his trial has been jailed for life for murdering his ex-girlfriend in Dublin five years ago.

A judge has told a trial jury that they must put "out of their minds" the fact a murder accused punched the prosecuting barrister in the face when considering their verdict.

A judge has told a man representing himself at his own trial, where he is accused of murdering his former partner, that he is “throwing out allegations” at witnesses “like confetti”.

Latest: A man accused of murdering a man in a row over the breeding of Chihuahuas insists he had to use force to defend his friend.

A murder accused took the stand at his trial today and said he had "lost it" when he hit the deceased multiple times with an axe.

A jury was discharged yesterday after they discovered a 29-second gap in CCTV footage used during a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.

A man accused of stabbing another man four times during a row outside a chip shop said he only wanted to frighten the deceased who, he claims, attacked him first.

A man who was convicted of manslaughter was taken from his drug-addicted mother as a baby and suffered the death of both his foster parents as a child, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A young man who was convicted of manslaughter was taken from his drug addicted mother as a baby and suffered the death of both his foster parents as a child, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man walked free from court yesterday after the State’s legal team dropped a murder charge against him.

A young man who was mistaken for a gang member and stabbed to death in a field had a “heart of gold and a bright future”, his mother told a sentencing hearing for his killer at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

A man who was shot dead on a country lane was worried about men hanging out near his home, a witness at a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

Dublin “assassins” murdered a man living alone in a country lane because he found a €30,000 stash of drugs belonging to a criminal gang, a prosecution barrister said at the Central Criminal Court today.

Derry man Stephen Cahoon has been found guilty of murdering pregnant mother-of-four Jean Teresa Quigley for the second time after three trials over a period of six years.

The prosecution counsel in the trial of a Derry man accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend has told a jury that there was evidence of "violence from beginning to end" left behind at the scene.

The trial of a man accused of murdering a pregnant woman has heard that he admits killing the woman.

A father of one caught with a cash box containing €50,000 which was stolen during an ATM delivery has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that a garda on trial for forging a letter from the DPP was lying to the point of no return.

The supervisor of a garda accused of forging a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions has denied telling the garda that if she “admitted wrongdoing” she would be “looked after”.

An alleged victim of clerical sexual abuse has told the trial of a detective charged with forgery she was angry when she found out that a file on her case had never been sent to the DPP.

Despite his ultimate conversion, perhaps opportunistic, to the principles of democracy, Ian Paisley’s hate-filled rhetoric left a trail of dead bodies in its wake. TP O’Mahony reviews a mixed legacy.

A Dublin man will be sentenced for impeding a murder trial after he was found not guilty last month of murder.

A man has gone on trial accused of murdering Dublin mother of two Anna Finnegan who had been his partner for nearly 10 years.

A man accused of murder has claimed that a prosecution witness carried out the killing after the deceased man teased him about being arrested for sexual assault.

The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara was a protected prisoner when he allegedly wrote a letter containing the phrase: ‘Two in the head. The bitch is dead’.

The man charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing graffiti on his cell wall which the State says bragged about killing her.

A man who raped his victim for five hours after breaking into her house armed with a hatchet has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of four men accused of being members of a gang has heard how two men brought cash in a plastic shopping bag to pay for a second-hand car.

An entrepreneur and Trinity College graduate who organised the importation of €29m worth of cocaine into the country will be sentenced next month.

There were bizarre scenes in the Central Criminal Court today during the conviction of a Westmeath man for rape and false imprisonment.

Two newspapers who published an article which collapsed a criminal trial have disputed the level of costs they are liable for.

An out of work carpenter found with €157,000 worth of cocaine and heroin has been jailed for seven years.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his best friend and neighbour in Blanchardstown over five years ago.

Several eye-witnesses have told the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering one of his best friends, that they saw their neighbour Dara McCormack on the ground of their Blanchardstown estate, with two men in balaclavas standing over him.

The father of a 22-year-old construction worker who was shot minutes after leaving home for a night out, has told the Central Criminal Court that his son named one of his best friends as his attacker in his dying moments.

THE trial of former Clare GP Paschal Carmody, who is accused of defrauding the families of two cancer patients, has collapsed.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody is not the conman the prosecution is suggesting but a man who has given his life to the treatment of illnesses of the young and old, his counsel has claimed.

A SENIOR medic agreed the results of the care given by former GP Paschal Carmody to nine terminally ill cancer patients were “exceptional”.

The former girlfriend of a man accused of falsely imprisoning, raping, sexually assaulting and threatening to kill a female escort has told a Central Criminal Court jury that when she spoke to him by telephone the morning after the alleged incident, he sounded “agitated, confused and not making any sense”.