A murder accused told gardaí how he put a length of wire around the neck of the victim while his co-accused was squeezing her neck.

Video recordings of the interrogation of a Cork man accused of murder were shown to a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A 24-year-old Cork man accused of murder allegedly told detectives he didn’t seem to show remorse for the death of a middle-aged woman, a jury at the Central Criminal court was told today.

A human identification expert has told a murder trial jury this morning that there was evidence that the DNA profile of one of two men accused of murder matched extracts taken from the victim's body.

A call made to a Cork Garda station shortly after a woman was murdered threatened a Garda the caller would "do it again" if the gardaí didn't go to where they said the murdered woman could be found, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

A teenager told a murder trial jury today that one of two men accused of murdering a woman in her Cork city flat told her that they had done it.

A 22-year-old man appeared in court today charged with the murder of a middle-aged woman whose body was discovered in her flat in Cork.

A 23-year-old Cork man is due to appear in court this morning to be charged in connection with the murder of a woman in the city in the early hours of Tuesday morning.