Two men were today sent forward for trial at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court, charged with the murder of a young Cork man last August.

TWO men were charged yesterday in connection with the death of a father of two in a Cork suburb.

One of Cork's most "vicious and violent criminals" who has 84 previous convictions was today jailed for 12 years for the brutal killing of an epileptic man who "innocently" wandered into his company.

The family of a man battered to death in Cork in 1997 hugged and cried openly as a man accused of the murder of their brother was convicted of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man who died following a beating in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 was

A prosecution witness today denied that he was lying to "save his own skin" under cross-examination at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man who died in a derelict house in the city in 1997 received multiple blows to the head from weapons that included a toaster, a murder trial jury has heard.