"I think about it all the time," a 13-year-old girl told the Central Criminal Court today, referring to the day her stepfather was stabbed to death in front of her.

An 18-year-old Kilkenny youth has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 36-year-old woman two years ago.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the Kilkenny house in which a 36-year-old mother-of-two died was "the scene of a sustained and violent assault and two deliberate fires".

A man killed in a Dublin pub last year was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a pistol when he got shot in the head, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A piece of a bicycle tube around a box of ammunition found in an arms dump in Co Wexford formed "a perfect physical fit" with a piece of tube found at the workshop of a man accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.