Good morning. I would like to take the opportunity of this column to announce that I will not be running for the office of the presidency.

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 third jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court today for the trial of a 24-year-old man charged with murdering his sister's partner in Co Mayo more than a year ago.

A Tipperary man who murdered his girlfriend in a frenzied, double-knife attack after a cocktail of alcohol, cannabis and Valium has been jailed for life.