An autistic man who beat his mother to death in a “very sad case, with a sad background narrative”, has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

A Wicklow murder trial has heard that a young man admitted being in “an absolute rage” when he beat his mother to death with a coffee mug.

A judge has order a psychiatric report be carried out on a man accused of murdering his mother in County Wicklow.

A man has been charged with murdering his mother in County Wicklow.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman in Co Wicklow.