A 22 year-old Carlow man told gardai that he struck out at a teenage father-of-one, stabbing him repeatedly because the younger man had "tried to rape" his mother.

A murder trial jury has heard how a teenage father-of-one, stabbed to death in a row outside his home in Carlow, choked on his own blood.

A witness has told a murder trial jury that he saw a Carlow man accused of murder stabbing the deceased man in the neck, the shoulder and the back.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead youth tried to have sex with her two weeks before her son allegedly stabbed him to death.

The mother of a Carlow man accused of the murder of a teenage father-of-one has alleged that the dead man tried to have sex with her two weeks before he was allegedly stabbed to death by her son.

Underlying resentment over allegations of sexual assault had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town, a murder trial jury were told today.

Underlying tension and resentment between two men had "a part to play" in the fatal stabbing of a teenage father-of-one in Carlow town a murder trial jury were told today.

A 22-year-old Carlow man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a teenager he shared a flat with in Carlow in 2001.

A 20-year-old Carlow man appeared before a special sitting of Carlow District Court last night over the fatal stabbing of a teenager at the weekend.

A 20-year-old man has appeared before Carlow District Court charged with murdering 17-year-old Warren Slater in the town in the early hours of this morning.

The 17-year-old stabbed to death in Carlow early today has been named as Warren Slater.