A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death told gardaí that they were probably fighting about something stupid and that she "wasn’t letting him get the better" of her when she stabbed him.

Paula Farrell of Rathmullen Park in Drogheda has pleaded not guilty to murdering 30-year-old Wayne McQuillan, but guilty to his manslaughter by stabbing him four times at that address on January 1, 2014.

A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death said that he had attacked her, and had several injuries afterwards, including a bite mark to her face.

A woman serving life for murder has had her conviction quashed after the Court of Appeal found her jury should have been allowed consider whether she had been provoked by her late partner before killing him.

A woman has been handed down a life sentence after a jury found her guilty of murdering her partner last year.

The jury in the trial of a Louth woman accused of murdering her boyfriend in a drunken row on New Years Eve have been told that they have "ample scope for doubt" when considering their verdict.

The jury in the trial of a Louth woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in a drunken row on New Years Eve has been told that she was a woman with a temper, prone to acts of violence.

A consultant forensic psychiatrist has told the jury in the trial of a 42-year-old Louth woman charged with murdering her partner last year that the accused had the capacity to form intent and was not impaired by her mental disorder on the night of the offence.

A 42-year-old woman accused of murdering her boyfriend last year has denied making up allegations of a sexual assault on the night of the incident.

A woman accused of murdering her partner last year has given evidence in her trial that she was “scared for her life” when the deceased began “strangling” her “to death” before she got a knife and stabbed him.

A woman accused of murdering her partner told a jury yesterday that she started drinking at 14 to “block” out being sexually abused as a child.

A woman accused of murder told gardaí she got a knife and “stuck it in” her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A 42-year-old Louth woman accused of murder told gardaí that she got a knife and "stuck it in" her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung, a murder trial has heard.

A Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial jury that a 30 year old man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung.

A jury has heard how a woman accused of murdering her partner in Co Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

A jury has heard how a 42-year-old Louth woman accused of murdering her partner in Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

Ambulance crews have called for an independent “capacity review” of the service’s equipment and personnel levels over fears chronic gaps in the system are causing needless patient deaths.

The family of a man who was brought to hospital in a garda patrol car because there was no ambulance available have hit out at the resourcing of the ambulance service.

Gardaí are hunting a crime gang who were interrupted by officers while dumping the body of a man wearing a bullet-proof vest in rural Dublin at the weekend.

A row over a move in a chess game is believed to have been a factor in the latest in a series of violent deaths across Ireland since the start of the new year.

The HSE’s repeated failure to meet life-saving ambulance target times is set to be examined by the country’s independent medical watchdog.

A 40-year old-woman has appeared in court charged with murdering Wayne McQuillan at their home in Drogheda yesterday morning.

Gardaí are continuing a question a 40-year-old woman over the murder of a man in Drogheda, Co. Louth.

A murder probe was launched last night after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death in Co Louth.

The man who was killed in a knife attack in Co Louth last night, has been named locally as Wayne McQuillan.

A murder probe is expected to be launched after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death.