Camcorder footage shows a man who was stabbed to death by his cousin wielding the flick knife that was eventually used to kill him, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

MEMBERS of Sean Quinn’s family were yesterday restrained from making changes to their international businesses — worth an estimated €500 million — until September 9.

A former principal biochemist with the Blood Transfusion Service Board who had been charged in relation to the infection of women with Hepatitis C has had an application for legal costs refused.

A subsidiary of one of the country’s biggest car dealerships and its two former directors will be sentenced in June for their role in a price-fixing cartel involving Citroen car dealers in Leinster.

THE High Court has ordered a solicitor to pay out the bulk of €975,000 from the estate of a former client who died in 2002 following complaints from beneficiaries about delays in receiving the money.

The charges against the former principal biochemist in the Blood Transfusion Service Board (BTSB) relating to the infection of women with Hepatitis C have been dropped at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The director of the garage that serviced the school bus involved in a fatal collision which killed five Meath schoolgirls has expressed the company’s deep regret and remorse for it’s deficient system at the time.

MISSING solicitor Michael Lynn’s major insurer, AIG Insurance, has told the High Court it is voiding policies with the solicitor in their entirety.

A stay has been put on fixing a Circuit Court trial date for the former principal biochemist in the Blood Transfusion Service Board on charges relating to the infection of women with Hepatitis C.

WITH estimated liabilities of about €80 million, solicitor Michael Lynn is to be cross-examined by lawyers for the Law Society over two days in the High Court about his dealings in relation to six properties. The hearing was fixed yesterday to open on December 12.

A leading construction company has been fined €50,000 for negligence which led to a father of two being killed when a concrete staircase collapsed on him at a building site.

State prosecutors will today insist the only man jailed in connection with the Omagh bomb massacre must stand retrial.

A Dublin man has been found guilty of attempting to murder a Jordanian man by shooting him in the head at a Leisureplex in Dublin's Blanchardstown by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

THE Law Society has rejected claims it was biased when it deemed that excessive fees were charged by a firm of Cork solicitors to two abuse victims for processing claims before the Residential Institutions Redress Board.

Self-confessed child-killer Wayne O’Donoghue, who strangled his young neighbour in 2004, will serve only a four-year jail sentence for the killing, the appeal court ruled today.

JUDGES considering the appeal to increase child killer Wayne O’Donoghue’s sentence may be hindered by the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) failure to charge the Corkman with covering up his crime.

THE judge who sentenced child killer Wayne O’Donoghue failed to take into account key features of the Corkman’s characteristics and behaviour in deciding how long he should serve in prison, it was claimed in the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A man accused killing his wife 10 years ago was seen sitting in the back of the car by a neighbour shortly before she was found strangled to death, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a man accused killing his wife ten years has heard that the dead woman died as a result of being strangled.

THE prosecution summed up its case against Wayne O’Donoghue yesterday, day nine of the trial. Shane Murphy SC addressed the jury. The following are extracts from this.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard a .38 calibre colt revolver recovered by gardaí contained no fingerprints, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 20-year-old witness in a Dublin murder trial has said he was threatened not to open his mouth to anyone or he would be killed saying "I didn’t know what to do, I was afraid", the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 36-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his father 10 years ago was today sentenced to 4 and a half years at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a 21-year-old man accused of murder has heard there were flies coming from the deceased’s nose after he was found up to 24 hours after his death in a disused building.

A man on trial for murder allegedly named the two gunmen he drove to and from the shooting of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Senior, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Gardai discovered Semtex explosives and assorted ammunition when they raided a house in Limerick city last November, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Two men who defrauded Ulster Bank of over £1m (€1.26m) by lodging fictitious invoices with the bank to keep a business afloat have escaped jail at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.