The wife of a businessman accused of sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home has told his trial that he is a kind and gentle man.

THE daughter of Celine Cawley and Eamonn Lillis said she could forgive her father for the row that led to her mother’s death but not for the lies he told afterwards.

The trial of two young men charged with murder collapsed in the Central Criminal Court today after the prosecution entered a Nolle Prosequi on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions

A Dublin man accused of murder stabbed the wrong man to death, his barrister told the jury at his trial in the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison, with three years suspended, for the manslaughter of taxi driver Mark Smyth, who she stabbed in the face before her former partner Carlos Byrne stabbed him to death 40 times in March 2008.

A murder trial jury heard today that DNA found on the clothing of the accused matched that of the murder victim.

A Waterford man accused of INLA membership illegally took a mobile phone into a cell while in garda custody, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife ten years ago was told that the dead woman was found with a tie tied tightly around her neck, the Central Criminal Court heard.

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to three and a half years yesterday at the Central Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice and withholding information from gardaí, in relation to the murder of a man whose body was found in a Co Waterford wood.

Two Cork men accused of beating a man into a coma who died nine months later were "conscious and intelligent about what they were doing", a murder trial heard during closing speeches today.

Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer are set to learn whether they will face a retrial over charges of attacking an Asian student.