A Central Criminal Court jury has found a teenager not guilty of murdering his father but guilty of his manslaughter.

The jury in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering his father has retired to consider its verdict at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a teenager accused of murdering his father has heard that the deceased died from blunt force trauma to the head which was complicated by a crush injury to the chest.

A Roscommon teenager told gardaí that he hit his father who arrived home drunk and left him asleep outside before finding him dead the next morning, a jury has heard.

A teenager accused of murdering his father rang for an ambulance and said his father had fallen over drunk outside their house, had been outside overnight and was not breathing, a jury has heard.

Gardaí were forced to close part of Waterford City Centre to traffic tonight after a massive fire tore through a shop.

A TEENAGER was brought before a special sitting of Roscommon District Court last night and charged in connection with the death of a man in a small Roscommon village.