The 51-year-old woman quizzed in relation to the death of an elderly widower was last night released to her family on condition she be admitted into a secure psychiatric hospital.

A woman who was being quesioned by gardaí about the death of a pensioner in Wexford has been released without charge.

A murder investigation has been launched after an elderly man was found dead in Co Wexford on Sunday.

Gardaí are treating as murder the death of an 81-year-old Wexford man whose body was found on the front lawn of his home on Sunday afternoon.

Gardaí say they are now treating the death of an elderly man in Wexford as murder.

A woman remains in garda custody this morning in relation to the suspicious death of an elderly man in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford yesterday afternoon.

A woman has been arrested after an elderly man was found dead.

A woman believed to be in her early 50s has been arrested in connection with the death of a 78-year-old Co Wexford man.

Cork man Wayne O’Donoghue was prepared to give evidence in a libel case settled in the High Court, it was claimed tonight.

SEVEN men lost their lives in weekend road crashes at home and abroad – with two Listowel men dying in separate crashes in Co Limerick and Melbourne, Australia.

Gardaí have named one of the two men in their twenties who were killed in separate road collisions in counties Cork and Wexford.

THE Press Ombudsman has upheld part of a complaint by Wayne O’Donoghue’s father Ray against a tabloid newspaper which accused him of “using” Robert’s Holohan’s death to help get planning for a new home.

THE mother of 11-year-old schoolboy Robert Holohan who died in tragic circumstances more than three years ago is expecting her fourth child later this year.

THE parents of slain schoolboy Robert Holohan maintained a dignified silence yesterday.

The hometown of the young student, Wayne O’Donoghue, convicted of killing schoolboy Robert Holohan is fully prepared for his imminent release, it was claimed tonight.

Former Justice Minister Nora Owen has said that High Court Judge Paul Carney was more sympathetic to the situation of convicted killer Wayne O’Donoghue than towards to the family of his victim 11-year-old Robert Holohan.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday rejected an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of the four-year prison sentence imposed on student Wayne O’ Donoghue for killing his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan.

Self-confessed child-killer Wayne O’Donoghue, who strangled his young neighbour in 2004, will serve only a four-year jail sentence for the killing, the appeal court ruled today.

The inquest into the death of schoolboy Robert Holohan got underway in Midleton this afternoon.

The inquest into the death of Co Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan is due to open in his home town of Midleton this morning.

THE family of Robert Holohan will today have an opportunity to question the State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy over how the Midleton schoolboy died in January of last year.

Semen found on the body of schoolboy Robert Holohan was not from his killer Wayne O’Donoghue, a court heard today.

The appeal by the DPP against the leniency of the four year jail sentence imposed on Wayne O' Donoghue for killing his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan was adjourned until the end of this month today.

The parents of Robert Holohan are reported to be shocked and upset after the publication yesterday of an interview with the schoolboy's killer.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is to appeal the sentence handed down to child killer Wayne O’Donoghue, it was confirmed today.

THE grandfather of schoolboy Robert Holohan has branded the four-year sentence handed down to his killer as “disgraceful” and believes he should have been given at least 10 years in jail.

A SEMEN sample found on Robert Holohan’s body was a DNA match for Wayne O’Donoghue — with only a 77-million-to-one chance of error, a forensic expert found.

Wayne O'Donoghue was today sentenced to four years in jail for the manslaughter of Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan, but Robert's mother, Majella, has said her family would appeal the sentence.

The mother of schoolboy Robert Holohan today claimed semen had been found on her dead son’s body.

A 21-year-old student is due to be sentenced today for the manslaughter of Co Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan last year.

THE family of schoolboy Robert Holohan whose killer is to be sentenced next week may be about to move from their home near Midleton in east Cork.

The first anniversary of the death of schoolboy Robert Holohan will be marked at a Mass in his local church next Sunday.

THE O'Donoghue house in Ballyedmond, Midleton is still lying vacant - nearly a year after their son confessed to killing Robert Holohan.

A CROWD had gathered outside Cork courthouse to await the departure of the man found guilty of the manslaughter of 11-year-old Irish schoolboy Robert Holohan.

ROBERT Holohan's mother and father, Majella and Mark, sat through every moment of the trial of Wayne O'Donoghue for the murder of their son.

ON the first day of the trial, Wayne O’Donoghue nervously held rosary beads between his fingers, and as the jury came back into court yesterday to give their verdict, he blessed himself.

Midleton schoolboy, Robert Holohan, photographed a poster on the bedroom wall of the man accused of murdering him.

A DETECTIVE investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the schoolboy sometime after he dumped the remains.

A detective investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the school boy some time after he dumped the remains.

MURDER accused Wayne O’Donoghue said people looking at the case from the outside would say he should have called the guards or an ambulance or his parents when he killed his 11-year-old neighbour.

Murder accused, Wayne O’Donoghue, said people looking at the case from the outside would say he should have called the guards or an ambulance or his parents when he killed his eleven-year-old neighbour.

BURN marks were found on the T-shirt, pants and underpants on the dead body of Robert Holohan during forensic examinations.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE became aggressive with gardaí because of delays in the search for schoolboy Robert Holohan.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE looked into his bathroom mirror with a knife held to his throat as 11-year-old Robert Holohan lay dead on the floor.