A murder accused started crying and admitted to stabbing his girlfriend when gardaí confronted him about inconsistencies in what he had told them.

Hidden Cyclone bids to give weight and a beating to six rivals in the Coral.ie Free Racehorse Ownership With The Coral Champions Club Rated Hurdle at Punchestown on Wednesday.

The first round of the Comerford Cakes Open 525 (formerly National Puppy Stake) got underway on Saturday night at Shelbourne Park, and it was unsurprising that the fastest time of the round came in the second heat.

Lansdowne 18 Clontarf 17: Scott Deasy’s nerveless conversion of a difficult 66th minute penalty sealed victory for Lansdowne over champions Clontarf in Saturday’s pulsating Ulster Bank League final at the Aviva Stadium.

A man accused of murdering a woman he had been in a three-month relationship with told gardaí that a knife was no sooner in his hands "than it was in her neck", a jury has heard.

IRB JUNIOR WORLD CUP POOLS:

The Ireland Under-20s were within a converted try of a famous win over perennial IRB Junior World champions New Zealand at the end of a titanic tussle in Vannes.

Ireland 19 Australia 15

Irish U-20 coach Mike Ruddock believes his side can follow up on last year’s stunning opening day victory against South Africa by again laying down an early marker in the opening game of the Junior World Championship against Australia in Vannes this evening (5.45pm Irish time).

Mike Ruddock has given his blessing to the decision to call Robbie Henshaw and Stuart Olding into the senior tour to North America next month rather than make the pair available to his U20 side at the upcoming Junior World Cup.

POLICE have arrested a second Irishman being hunted over the shooting of a British expat at his home on the Costa del Sol.

AIB has secured court orders for possession of three properties in Waterford to meet a €4.3 million judgment secured by the bank last June.

A chronic alcoholic who fraudulently used a genuine bank account while posing as the account owner has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court by Judge Patricia Ryan.

TWO high-profile criminal lawyers clashed yesterday at Limerick District Court over the circumstances in which a client transferred his case from one firm to the other.

A surgeon told a murder trial today that two wounds found in the deceased’s heart during autopsy, presumed to be caused by a stabbing, were actually caused by him and a colleague.

"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.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard that a 41-year-old man was stabbed to death in his front drive in Ballyfermot in Dublin by a youth who had broken into his car.

A 60-year-old Galway man was sentenced to six years for the manslaughter of a "drinking friend" at the Central Criminal court today.

IRISH permit holder Ger Farrell was fined a total of £1,150 by the Jockey Club’s disciplinary panel yesterday after an inquiry into events surrounding the running of Precious Music at Doncaster nearly a year ago.

A NEIGHBOUR of murdered father of five Thomas Farrell appeared in court yesterday charged with the fatal stabbing of the 43-year-old.

A 20-year-old man has appeared before Kilmainham district court charged with the murder of Thomas Farrell (43) in his home in Ballyfermot, West Dublin, on Wednesday night.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of 43-year-old Thomas Farrell who was fatally stabbed in Dublin last night.

A 20-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a father-of-five in front of his children at his Ballyfermot home.

THERE was chaos in the Farrell house after the two thugs fled.

LIFE has become cheap in Ireland — so cheap that a father of five young children was killed for attempting to stop thieves stealing his car.

Gardaí in Ballyfermot, Co Dublin have arrested a second man in relation to a fatal stabbing in the area last night.

The man who was fatally stabbed in Dublin last night has been named.