The main issue in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering a woman with a lump-hammer is whether he was so provoked by the deceased biting his penis that he temporarily lost his self-control, a jury in the Central Criminal Court were told today.

A man accused of murdering a woman in his flat told gardaí he 'saw red' after she bit his penis, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man was today charged with the murder of a shop owner in Dublin city centre.

A 55-year-old man was due before Dublin District Court today charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in Dublin’s city centre on Tuesday.

A 55-year-old man was still being held this morning by gardaí investigating the discovery of a woman’s body in Dublin’s city centre on Tuesday.

THE woman murdered and dumped in the street earlier this week was a mother of two who ran a record shop in Dublin city centre.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a woman in Dublin city centre tonight named the victim as Rosemary Dowling.

A man in his fifties was arrested this afternoon in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found dumped on Dublin's Mercer Street earlier this week. He has been taken to Harcourt Terrace Garda Station.

GARDAÍ were last night no closer to identifying a woman whose dead body was dumped in a Dublin city centre street.

Detectives were tonight investigating a series of leads in a bid to identify the body of a murdered woman.

Post mortem results on a woman’s body that was discovered in Dublin city centre yesterday revealed that she died of head injuries.

Gardaí have said that they are now conducting a murder investigation following the discovery of a woman's body in Dublin city centre.

Gardaí have confirmed that they are now treating the death of a woman, whose body was discovered in Dublin city centre earlier this morning, as suspicious.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the discovery of a body in Dublin’s city centre.

DUBLIN City Council has abandoned plans to free up a major traffic bottleneck in the heart of the city centre following the threat of legal action by department store Brown Thomas.