The nephew of a murder accused said his uncle stabbed the deceased in the chest with a a foot-long butcher knife in a statement read to the jury yesterday.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a man with a stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A woman has told her former partner’s murder trial that when she visited him in prison he told her he had stabbed the deceased.

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a 25-year-old who was stabbed to death at an apartment late on Thursday night.

IF Blackwater College lose out to St Caimin’s of Shannon on scoring difference for a place in the play-off stages of this year’s Harty Cup (the Clare school play Our Lady’s of Templemore today), then they can surely curse Doon CBS keeper Colm Cummins.