Convicted wife killer Brian Kearney has been refused a Supreme Court appeal.

“My earliest memory was of my mother reading Roald Dahl to us in bed. I later read a lot of Enid Blighton. I took a break from reading in my teens, but rediscovered it in my late twenties.

A DUBLIN woman was bitten on her face and neck by a large rat – as she slept in a Tunisian holiday hotel.

A SUBDUED air hung over the Central Criminal Court yesterday as the trial of Brian Kearney for the murder of his wife Siobhán moved towards its concluding stages.

The garda in charge of the investigation into the death of Siobhan Kearney decided the situation looked sinister on the day of her death a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The family of a woman whose husband's trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court today have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.