Mr Justice Paul Carney has harshly criticised the Irish Independent in the manner in which it reported on the sentencing of Mrs Dolores O’Neill last week in the Central Criminal Court.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has this afternoon been sent away to consider its verdict in the case of a Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband.

A Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband has told the Central Criminal Court he first stuck her violently two weeks before their wedding.

The son of a woman accused of murdering her husband has told her murder trial of constant rows between his parents and of his father’s drunkenness and violence towards the accused.