A man has been found guilty of robbing and killing 83-year-old Christy Hanley in Co Westmeath last year.

A pensioner was found dead in his home in Kilbeggan last year after he was tied up and beaten, having received “blows, punches and kicks” to the face and head, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of the man accused of murdering 83-year old Christy Hanley in Co Westmeath last year will begin on Thursday at the Central Criminal Court.

A man allegedly caught with almost 4,000 litres of laundered diesel has been charged with evading duty, Revenue and Customs in the North said today.

Relatives of one of the so-called 'Disappeared' say they have received a map showing where his body might be buried.

The only man convicted of the manslaughter of teenager Brian Murphy is prepared to go to the Supreme Court to prevent a retrial going ahead, a court heard today.

The family of the slain teenager Brian Murphy said tonight that the criminal justice system was “in tatters” and had swung too far in favour of the accused.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today quashed the four-year jail sentence for manslaughter given to Dermot Laide in connection with the death of teenager Brian Murphy outside a Dublin nightclub.

Two of the men convicted in connection with the death of teenager Brian Murphy are to learn the results of their appeal today.

RELATIVES of the Omagh bomb victims are confident a Belfast court will order the handover of documents relating to the trials of four men suspected of carrying out the atrocity.

IT WAS another weekend of carnage on the nation’s roads but two families in the North had a miraculous escape yesterday when a milk truck smashed into their front gardens.

A 21-year-old man has died following a road accident in Co Wicklow.