A woman accused of murdering her husband 23 years ago was told by gardaí in 1996 that she would not be prosecuted, when the 'missing jigsaw piece' was DNA identification.

The chief prosecution witness in a cold-case murder trial has today denied that she helped to beat her father to death after he called her then fiancé a "nigger" or "darkie".

A mother-of-one has told a murder trail that she saw her fiancé and mother kill her father with a spanner, slash hook, monkey wrench and lump hammer when she was 18.

A woman has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering her husband at their Westmeath home 23 years ago.