A woman accused of murdering her partner told a jury yesterday that she started drinking at 14 to “block” out being sexually abused as a child.

A woman accused of murder told gardaí she got a knife and “stuck it in” her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung, a murder trial has heard.

A Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial jury that a 30 year old man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung.

A serial sex attacker who raped one woman and sexually assaulted another within hours of each other has today been jailed for six years.

A young Drogheda man who fatally stabbed a 41 year-old father of two has today been jailed for life by the Central Criminal Court after a jury found him guilty of murder.

A young Drogheda man told the man he is accused of murdering that he was going to stick a knife in his face, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard today that a young Drogheda man accused of murder “directed” a knife at the father of the child he was babysitting after a row had broken out.

A young Drogheda man accused of murdering the father of the child he was babysitting was “very aggressive, swinging knives”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A young Drogheda man fatally stabbed the father of the young girl he and his girlfriend were babysitting, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 42-year-old Louth man has been found guilty of the murder of a young German woman in Co Meath in 2001 at the Central Criminal court today.

Prosecution evidence in the trial of a Louth man accused of murdering a German woman in 2001 concluded at the Central Criminal court today.

DNA profiling carried out on the body of a young German woman revealed a match with that of the man accused of her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

A Drogheda Garda Inspector today defended the circumstances surrounding the alleged confession of a man accused of murder that he had returned to the body of a young German woman days after her disappearance to remove and hide her clothes.

A man accused of murder was seen driving into Drogheda town with a girl in the passenger seat of his car on the day a German woman disappeared, a witness told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of German journalist Bettina Poeschel.