A murder trial has heard that teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara was bleeding profusely from her skull when she arrived at hospital after being gunned down in Tallaght two years ago.

A jury has been told that the teenager charged with murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting her in graffiti on his cell wall.

A man serving 20 years for killing a 16-year-old girl had boiling water poured over his face and chest in a gruesome prison attack.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara, who was shot while sitting in a car in Dublin last year.

Gardaí are investigating whether a man fatally shot last Friday was the victim of a punishment attack that went too far.

An 18-year-old youth has been sent forward for trial accused of murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy-McNamara who was shot dead in a drive-by attack in Tallaght earlier this year.

A man is due in court later, charged in connection with the murder of Melanie (McCarthy) McNamara in Dublin earlier this year.

A man is due before court in the morning, in connection with the murder of Melanie McNamara in Tallaght, Dublin on February 7th.

A man is to be charged in connection with the murder of Melanie McCarthy McNamara, who was shot dead in Dublin two weeks ago.

Locals in the Dublin suburb where innocent Melanie McCarthy was gunned down are bracing themselves for further violence following the funeral yesterday of the 16-year-old girl.

Gardaí investigating last week’s murder of Melanie McNamara, 16, yesterday arrested two men in relation to the killing.

People in Tallaght are reported to be living in fear after a second shooting in the south-west Dublin suburb in seven days.

Gardaí will know as early as today if they have a DNA match linking a key suspect to last week’s murder of Melanie McCarthy.

The shotgun used to kill Melanie McCarthy was pressed against the passenger window when it was fired — giving the 16 year old no chance of survival.

A Traveller gang “runs” the Dublin estate where 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy was gunned down, local community workers have claimed.

Gardaí were on patrol in Tallaght overnight after the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl.

Gardaí fear a notorious Limerick gang might head to Dublin and “set Tallaght on fire” in revenge for the murder of Melanie McCarthy, 16.

Sharon says her teenage daughter narrowly missed getting caught up in Tuesday night’s gangland murder.

The senior garda leading the investigation into the murder of 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy described the killing as a “particularly heinous crime”.

A teenage girl gunned down in a drive-by shooting was an innocent child mistakenly targeted by her killers, her family have said.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses after a 16-year-old girl died following a shooting incident in Tallaght last night at around 10.35pm.

Chief Superintendent John Manley has appealed for the public's help in solving the "particularly heinous crime" of the shooting dead of a teenage girl in Tallaght overnight.

Gardaí are trying to trace the movements of a vehicle which they believe may have been used in a shooting in Tallaght overnight, in which a teenage girl died.

A teenage girl killed in a drive-by shooting may have been mistakenly targeted in a feud between families, detectives believe.

The Justice Minister has branded the fatal shooting of a teenage girl in Dublin as "horrific", and said these types of incidents would not be tolerated.

A teenage girl has been shot dead in Dublin.