Detectives in the North investigating the disappearances of missing schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson were at a disadvantage because of the delay in reporting her missing, an inquest has heard.

Forensic experts today carried out a detailed examination of a derelict flat once occupied by a man cleared of murdering a missing schoolgirl in Northern Ireland.

An inquest into the death of a schoolgirl who was last seen with a convicted child killer may not start for two years, a court has heard.

A convicted child killer has launched a legal bid to halt an inquest into the death of a schoolgirl he was cleared of murdering.

A 72-year-old Irishman has become the first European inducted into a prestigious martial arts hall of fame in communist North Korea.

Police in the North have pledged to do everything they can to recover the body of a murdered schoolgirl as fresh searches for her remains began 17 years after her disappearance.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer jailed for extortion in an elaborate hitman-for-hire scam will be extradited to the US within weeks to face similar charges.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer jailed for extortion in the elaborate hitman-for-hire 'Lying Eyes' scam faces extradition back to the US.

Fresh searches for a schoolgirl who went missing in the North in 1994 are to begin in the New Year, an inquest heard today.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer lost his appeal today against the severity of a six-year jail term handed down to him for demanding money with menace.

SHARON COLLINS’s conviction for conspiracy to murder her wealthy partner and his two sons by hiring an online hitman should be overturned, a court heard yesterday.

Clare woman Sharon Collins will today appeal her conviction for conspiring to murder her wealthy lover and his two sons.

The Court of Criminal appeal has fixed a date in March of next year for the hearing of Clare woman Sharon Collins' appeal against her conviction for soliciting an Egyptian poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons.

A mother-of-two who hired a hitman on-line to kill her wealthy partner and his sons was today jailed for six years at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

A mother of two convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her wealthy partner and his sons will be sentenced tomorrow.

A mother-of-two convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her wealthy partner and his two sons will be sentenced next month, a court ruled today.

The North's Police Ombudsman has accused the police of failing to properly investigate the disappearance of 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson in 1994.

“EXTRAORDINARY and bizarre.”

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons while her co-accused Egyptian Essam Eid (aged 52) has been found guilty of demanding €100,000 with menaces from the intended victim.

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

THE jury in the hitman for hire murder conspiracy trial spent a second night in a hotel last night after they failed to reach a verdict after almost five-and-a-half hours of deliberation yesterday.

The jury in the trial of a Clare woman and a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring to kill her partner and his two sons, has been sent to a hotel for a second night.

The jury in the trial of a Clare woman and a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring to kill her partner and his two sons, has been sent to a hotel for the night.

A FORMER Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to murder her partner and his two sons is a “patsy” the prosecution is using to secure the conviction of his co-accused, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to murder her partner and his two sons is a 'patsy' the prosecution is using to secure the conviction of his co-accused a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons has denied writing the emails that plotted the killing.

A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that the contents of a letter she sent to the Gerry Ryan show were not motive to kill anyone.

A witness in the trial of a Clare woman and a Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring to kill her partner and his two sons has said he felt intimidated and in shock when being interviewed by gardaí, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Someone checked the credit limit on a Clare man’s American Express card from Ireland, while his partner and the Las Vegas poker dealer she is accused of conspiring with to kill him and his two sons were both out of the country, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Clare woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons denied that she was motivated by money a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A CLARE woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons told gardaí she obtained a passport with her partner’s surname as a “gesture” to him a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Clare woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons told gardaí she obtained a passport with her partner’s’ surname as a "gesture" to him a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A WOMAN accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions asking him to drop the case against her for the good of her family, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions asking him to drop the case against her for the good of her family a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to kill her partner and his two sons told gardai he didn’t know how a contact lens case that tested positive for Ricin came to be in his cell at Limerick prison a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has been hearing that the lethal toxin Ricin was found in the prison cell of a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to kill her partner and his two sons.

A Clare woman accused of hiring a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons told gardai she had been blackmailed into sending €15,000 to her co-accused’s Nevada address a jury at the Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of being hired to kill a Clare man and his two sons told gardaí he had an affair with the woman accused of hiring him a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Clare woman on trial for hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons wrote to the Gerry Ryan show several months before the events she is accused of, complaining about her partner a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A computer from the business office of a man whose partner is accused hiring a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill him and his two sons had been used to search for hitmen on the Internet a Central Court Jury has heard.

The wife of a former Las Vegas poker dealer has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court she helped her husband make the deadly poison Ricin in their Nevada home.

A Clare man whose partner is accused of hiring a hitman to kill him and his two sons has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he found it “very, very, very hard to believe” that she was guilty of the charges.

A Clare man whose partner is accused of hiring a hitman to kill him and his two sons has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he asked his partner to travel to America last year to find the woman she says had access to computers used to contact the hitman website.