A High Court judge has said during a manslaughter sentencing that he has been "haunted by the conditions of the cruelly-named Fatima Mansions" during the course of the trial which was heard at the Central Criminal Court last February.

A 35-year-old Dublin man has been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of the manslaughter of a former All Ireland boxing champion turned drug-dealer and addict.

A murder trial jury was sent to a hotel tonight, after failing to reach a verdict at the Central Criminal Court.

A former All-Ireland boxing champion died "as a result of a single stab wound to the right side of the abdomen", the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A young Dublin woman told a murder trial today that the deceased had threatened to rape her, her niece and her mother and admitted she said she was not sorry he was dead.