Thousands of people are set to take to the streets across Ireland tomorrow in a series of water charges protests.

A Co Limerick man died after "irreversible and irrevocable" injuries to the brain caused by a heavy object, a murder trial jury heard today.

A Co Clare man took part in a joint enterprise to rob and assault a Limerick man whose badly beaten body was found on a lonely road near a Co Tipperary village in 1998, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court was told today.

The family of a young deaf man whose skull was bashed in during an attempted robbery, today said "justice has been done" as his killer was jailed for life after being convicted of murder.