A Dublin teenager has received two life sentences for what was today described as the "brutal and savage" murders of two Polish men.

Nineteen-year-old David Curran is to be sentenced today for stabbing two Polish men in the head with a screwdriver outside their Dublin home.

A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver.

The jury has been told it can return a majority verdict in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering two Polish men outside their home.

The jury in the trial of two Dubliners charged with murdering two Polish men has been told the three teenagers with the defendants were an active catalyst that evening.

A Central Criminal Court jury has been told that if ever there was a case of murder, then the stabbing in the heads of two Polish men outside their home was it.

The killer of two Polish men has today told his murder trial that he stabbed the mechanics in their front garden because one of them shouted at them and he thought they had stabbed his father.

The trial of two Dublin men charged with murdering two Polish mechanics continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury today.

The co-accused in a double murder trial told detectives he was no rat and would not name the person who stabbed two Polish men in the heads with a screw driver.

The teenager who killed two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver, told gardaí that he had seen his co-accused carry out the stabbings.

A friend of two Polish men’s killer came up with an alibi for him hours after he stabbed the mechanics in their heads.

Racist comments were shouted at two Polish mechanics before they were stabbed in their heads with a screwdriver outside their home, a murder trial has heard today.

A teenager who stabbed two mechanics in their heads had spent the day taking drugs and drinking alcohol and had been stabbed himself days earlier.

The State Pathologist has said two Polish men, stabbed outside their home, died of penetrating injuries to their heads, possibly caused by a cross-shaped or Phillips-type screw driver.

A number of witnesses told a Dublin murder trial that they saw or heard two Polish mechanics being killed outside their Dublin home.

At least three concerned citizens tried to prevent a fight minutes before two Polish mechanics were stabbed to death outside their Dublin home.

A Drimnagh teenager stabbed two Polish mechanics through their heads, possibly with a screwdriver, outside their Dublin home on a February evening two years ago, it has emerged.

ON THE day that a Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish nationals Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos was sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court it has emerged that a fund of €150,000 will be given to the families of the two Polish men.

A Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish nationals Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos was today served with the book of evidence and sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish men Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos will have to wait another four weeks before he is sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.