Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is under fire from an animal welfare group for buying eggs from a company the Humane Society of the US says mistreats chickens.

A 28-year-old Cork man stabbed to death in front of his mother died from massive internal bleeding and shock due to a stab wound in his left groin, the State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy told a jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A widowed mother of seven who saw her son stabbed to death in her hallway has alleged she was threatened by his two assailants after she ran after them, a jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

The mother of a Cork man stabbed to death in the hallway of his own home has told a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court that she saw his assailant twist the knife in her son before she could stop him.