A man charged with murdering a mother and her young daughter denied wanting to get rid of shoes he was wearing because they were covered in blood, his trial has heard.

A man accused of murdering a mother and daughter had Deichmann shoes with soles that matched bloodied footprints found in the Kerry home of the victims, his trial has heard.

The tip of a knife found in a pool of blood alongside the body of an eight-year-old girl and a piece of a blade found alongside her dead mother in their home were from the same knife, the trial of a man for double murder has been told.

Bloody footprints were found almost all over the semi-detached, two-storey house in which the bodies of 27-year-old Lithuanian woman Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old daughter Enrika were discovered on June 16, 2013.

Around 60 men were asked to give DNA samples in the investigation into the murders of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika.

A prosecution witness yesterday told a double murder trial he had a relationship with a woman found dead in Kerry last year.

The trial of a Lithuanian man accused of murdering a mother and daughter, also from Lithuania, at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee has been shown CCTV footage of his movements on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Murdered mum Jolanta Lubiene had her tickets booked to return permanently to Lithuania in July last year, her sister said yesterday.

The last recorded movements of the 27-year-old Lithuanian woman whose bloodied body was found on the kitchen floor of her home with her pet dog standing guard over her on June 16, 2013, were shown to a hushed courtroom yesterday.

A 27-year-old man will go on trial today, charged with the double murder of a mother and her young daughter at their home in Killorglin in Co Kerry last year.

A 27-year-old man will face trial, charged with the double murder of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter at their rented home in Killorglin in Co Kerry earlier this year.

A 26-year-old man has today made his seventh court appearance over the double killing of a Lithuanian mother and daughter.

A 26-year old man has been further remanded in custody over the murders of a mother and her daughter in Kerry.

A man is due in court again this morning charged in connection with the murders of a mother and her young daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry earlier this year.

The 26-year-old Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, last month appeared at Cork District Court yesterday by video link from prison.

The Lithuanian man charged with a double murder in Killorglin, Co. Kerry will appear in court again today.

Devastated parents and a distraught young father were foremost among the mourners who wept and watched as a mother and her daughter, murdered in Co Kerry, were laid to rest in a hillside grave outside the tiny Lithuanian village of Gedrimai yesterday.

The bodies of a mother and daughter found dead at their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry, almost three weeks ago are to be buried in Lithuania tomorrow.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged last night with the double killing of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter in Co Kerry.

Gardaí questioning a 26-year-old man in connection with a double murder are hoping for a breakthrough in a case that has shocked the country.