A teenager spat at paramedics bringing him to hospital in an ambulance and continued to shout abuse at them in hospital within earshot of other patients at the accident and emergency unit.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a young Kerry man who was granted bail to attend his mother’s funeral but failed to turn up in court yesterday.

A Cork man bled to death from a stab wound to the left groin that severed a major artery, a murder trial jury heard today.

The mother of a man who was stabbed to death in front of her told a murder trial she saw his assailant twist the knife in her son's side.

A Cork man bled to death after being fatally stabbed in the groin by a neighbour who acted in "common design" with another man, a murder trial jury heard today.