The man who damaged a Claude Monet painting, estimated to be worth €10m, at the National Gallery of Ireland has been sentenced to six years in jail.

A man on trial for allegedly putting his fist through a Monet painting accused gardaí of trying to get a false confession, a jury has heard.

A 23-year-old man is in a serious condition following a knife attack in Co Kerry this morning.

The trial of a 50-year-old father-of-four accused of stabbing a HIV-positive man to death as he lay in his hospital bed began today at the Central Criminal Court.