Darren Murphy, 42, with an address at Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, County Cork, denied murdering Olivia Dunlea

Prosecution counsel in the Mitchelstown murder trial told the jury there was ample evidence for a guilty verdict but the defence said the jury could not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt as there was “doubt all over the place”.

Following a meeting with Mayo officials in Croke Park last Friday, the GAA leadership are now keen to speak to the Mayo International Supporters Foundation chairman Tim O’Leary about resolving the impasse.

Michael Dineen of Ard Mhuileann, Mitchelstown, was arraigned on the charge of murder of 36-year-old Patrick O’Donnell at Willie Andies bar on New Square, Mitchelstown, on June 1.

Mayo GAA chiefs have denied claims made by a number of clubs that a statement released after Monday night’s County Board meeting in MacHale Park, Castlebar, contained inaccuracies regarding a ‘motion of confidence’ in the County Board executive.

For all the strangeness marinating Mayo football at the moment, there was nothing more bizarre than the sight of a herd of four-legged animals heading for the Sportlann, in Castlebar, last Wednesday night, intent on issuing a singular demand of their very own.

Fresh allegations of poor governance practices have been made against the Mayo GAA Board.

A 30-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a man in his 60s blamed a garda for the case against him claiming the detective who arrested him was motivated by revenge because the accused once called him “a retard”.

Mayo GAA are set for another wave of pressure, after a leaked letter from Tim O’Leary, chairman of Mayo International Supporters Foundation, places question marks over their corporate governance.

A man in his 60s described for a judge and jury being raped by another man when he was lying on the street tired after drink.

An email has been issued by the Mayo GAA International Supporters Foundation to all clubs in the county to explain the breakdown of its relationship with the board.

Meet Tim O’Leary from Whiddy Island: He’s the local ferryman, postman, farmer and publican.

A 63-year-old man gave evidence yesterday in the trial of a man half his age who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting him when he was on a blanket at the side of the street in Cork.

A man aged around 60 was raped by a man half his age when he was sleeping in a doorway on the street in Cork City, it was alleged yesterday to a judge and jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.

Tomasz Wasowicz, 45, and Marcin Skrzypezyk, 31, are on trial charged with the murder of Ludovit Pasztor, 40, on February 21, 2017 at the Amber filling station at Carrrignagroghera, Fermoy.

One single blow from a large iron bar to the back of a man’s head was likely to have been the cause of death, a pathologist has testified in the Fermoy murder trial.

An eyewitness in a Co Cork murder trial testified yesterday seeing two men on the ground at the Amber Service Station in Fermoy being struck by another pair standing over them with what looked like iron bars.

An eyewitness in the Fermoy murder trial testified today seeing two men on the ground at the Amber Service Station in Fermoy being struck by another pair standing over them with what looked like iron bars.

A friend of the man found dead at the Amber station in Fermoy testified at a murder trial today that when they had metal bars in their hands the deceased said they would show two haulage drivers who were “the real Polish”.

The defence lawyer in a rape trial said the accused man walking away from a woman in a laneway after consensual sex may have been ungentlemanly but that was not what the jury had to decide.

The man who was arrested almost three weeks into a rape investigation for questioning made a reference to the laneway at the centre of the case as he was being driven past it in a patrol car, the arresting officer said.

A lawyer representing the young man accused of raping a young woman in a laneway in Cork city said today that CCTV shows a man and woman walking arm in arm as they entered the laneway.

A young man has gone on trial accused of raping a young woman in a laneway in Cork city in a case where she gave investigating gardaí different accounts of having sex with one, two and three men.

A Cork man denied raping his friend’s girlfriend in a case where it was alleged he got into a single bed with the couple and began having sexual intercourse with her when she was asleep.

The man accused of murdering a Cork man in Bandon seven years ago was described by neighbours as howling like a dog and cheering after the body of the deceased was thrown in the river.

A young man who denied murdering his mother thinking he was setting her free from the cruelty of life was found guilty of murder yesterday.

The Cork man on trial for murdering his mother was freaked out about not being able to talk to women and he drank two bottles of wine before allegedly arguing with his mother and stabbing her in the back of the head with considerable force.

A man who denies murdering his girlfriend was categorised by the prosecution as a controlling individual who committed murder in a jealous rage but the defence claimed he felt provoked and lost control.

The defence in the case of a man who denies murdering his girlfriend at her home called evidence from a pathologist who suggested the victim died as a result of a stab wound and that smoke inhalation was not a factor.

The man accused of murdering his girlfriend at her home in Passage West, Co Cork, more than five years ago told gardaí that he snapped, stabbed her in the neck, and set fire to the house.

The body of a man taken from the River Bandon in suspicious circumstances had black flex and lace around his neck, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Brian Veale, aged 31, was yesterday jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for murdering Graham Johnson in the kitchen of Cork Prison by stabbing him through the heart with a carving knife.

The lawyer for a man accused of murdering his fellow Cork Prison inmate by stabbing him in the chest, has told a jury that “fear is at the heart of this case”.

A man on trial accused of murdering a fellow Cork Prison inmate asked a witness not to go back to his cell because he was “fearful” the deceased “would do something to him”, a jury has heard.

A murder accused stabbed a fellow Cork prison inmate in the heart and smiled as he told a witness: “If I get a life sentence it doesn’t matter”, a jury has heard.

A Cork pensioner who raped and sexually abused his step-daughter from when she was aged 11, resulting in her giving birth to two of his children, has been jailed for 12 years.

A Polish man who sexually assaulted a woman while on a night out in Cork has been given a three and a half year sentence.

A convicted paedophile who was a highly trusted member of his local community in Cork has been remanded in custody pending sentence for sexually abusing two young boys.

Béal Átha’n Ghaorthaidh 3-15 Newmarket 1-9: Béal Áthán Ghaorthaidh rattled off an impressive victory at the expense of Newmarket in the opening round of the Cork Premier IFC at Macroom yesterday.

A man has been jailed for 13 years for the rape of a woman four times having invited her to his house to help him with some painting.