Convicted wife killer Brian Kearney has been refused a Supreme Court appeal.

The Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgement today on an attempt by convicted murderer Brian Kearney to have his case heard by the country’s highest court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today rejected claims made on behalf of convicted murderer Brian Kearney that the quality of the circumstantial evidence in the case against him was insufficient to exclude the possibility that someone else murdered his wife Siobhan.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed Brian Kearney's appeal against his conviction for killing his wife Siobhan at their Dublin home.

THE sister of a woman stabbed to death in her Dundalk home believes more than one person was behind the murder.

The sister of a woman stabbed to death in her Dundalk home believes more than one person was behind the murder.

ABOUT 50 submissions have been received by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as part of a review of its long-standing policy not to give reasons for decisions on whether or not to prosecute some criminal cases.

VICTIM support groups and Fine Gael have led calls for the mandatory use of victim impact statements in murder trials.

THE fateful knock finally came at 3.45pm.

IN June 2003 in an interview with a Sunday newspaper, Siobhán Kearney spoke movingly of her love of her new life on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca where she and her husband, Brian, had bought a hotel just six months earlier.

Brian Kearney tonight began a life sentence for the murder of his wife Siobhan with her family saying in an emotional statement he ceased to be human when he killed her.

BRIAN KEARNEY had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhán a jury in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin heard as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases yesterday.

AS the trial of businessman Brian Kearney for the murder of his wife Siobhán enters its final stage, the focus of the case switched perceptibly yesterday to the eight women and four men who constitute the jury.

Brian Kearney had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhan, a jury in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard, as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases today.

A SUBDUED air hung over the Central Criminal Court yesterday as the trial of Brian Kearney for the murder of his wife Siobhán moved towards its concluding stages.

A JURY at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has heard how a forensic scientist found no evidence of DNA from murder accused Brian Kearney on a vacuum cleaner flex found near the body of his wife, Siobhán.

The night before Siobhan Kearney was found dead in her home she emailed her brother’s partner in Italy ending her letter by asking her to, “say a prayer for me”, a court has heard.

The garda in charge of the investigation into the death of Siobhan Kearney decided the situation looked sinister on the day of her death a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Tests have shown that a flex that was found around the deceased body of Siobhan Kearney could not have held her weight for more than five to seven seconds, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

Siobhan Kearney died from asphyxiation due to neck compression a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The trial of Brian Kearney, accused of murdering his wife, has been adjourned until tomorrow morning in order for an ill jury member, who was absent today, to recover, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A RARE but unsettling light into the private world of a couple’s relationship was shone yesterday as a jury in a murder trial was given an anatomy of the marriage of Brian and Siobhan Kearney.

A DUBLIN businessman accused of murdering his wife told gardaí that he could not accept she had killed herself but denied being guilty of the crime.

A man accused of strangling his wife told gardaí he did not believe his wife would kill herself and leave her son, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was seeking advice on marital separation the day before her death, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was not wearing her wedding ring a week before her death, a witness has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a man accused on murdering his wife in south Dublin two years ago have been hearing from emergency service personnel who attended the scene of the death.

THE family of a woman whose husband’s trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court yesterday have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.

The family of a woman whose husband's trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court today have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.

The jury selected to hear the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering his wife has been discharged after it emerged one of the jurors worked for an alarm company who installed a security alarm in the victim’s home.

A 50-year-old man accused of murdering of his wife in their south Dublin home almost two years ago will go on trial today.

A jury has been selected at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to hear the trial of a man charged with murdering his wife on his 49th birthday in 2006.

BROKEN families united outside the Dáil yesterday to observe a minute’s silence in memory of women across Ireland who have been murdered.

Broken families united today to remember women across Ireland who have been murdered at the hands of brutal killers.

THE mother of a teenage girl found dead at her family home last year has been sent forward for trial charged with her murder.

THE husband of strangled hotelier Siobhán Kearney has been released from custody to wait at home for trial for his wife’s murder.

THE husband of hotelier Siobhan Kearney who was found strangled to death over a year ago has been charged with her murder.

Gardaí in Dublin have charged a 50-year-old man in connection with the murder of Siobhan Kearney in the south of the city last year

THE grieving families of women who died violently over the last decade gathered for an emotional vigil in Dundalk, Co Louth, yesterday.

A MOTHER who was brutally murdered in her Dundalk home will be remembered in a special memorial to mark the second anniversary of her death.

A mother who was brutally murdered in her Dundalk home will be remembered in a special memorial to mark the second anniversary of her death.

THE family of a murdered Dublin mother still looking for answers about her death will gather in their parish church tonight to mark her first anniversary Mass.

Since the start of 2006, 67 (check) people have met violent deaths — more than a killing every week.

THE FAMILY of murder victim Siobhan Kearney made an impassioned plea yesterday for her killer to be caught.