A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of Louth woman Paula Farrell, who is charged with murdering her boyfriend Wayne McQuillan.

A psychiatrist has told a jury she was not satisfied that a woman accused of murdering her boyfriend experienced "a dissociative reaction" at the time of the killing.

A murder accused has testified that she feels she wouldn’t be in her current situation had she not been abused as a child.

A murder accused has agreed that she knew that stabbing her boyfriend with a big chef’s knife would "do more than hurt him".

The mother-of-three was being cross-examined by the State at the Central Criminal Court, where she is on trial charged with murdering the 30-year-old in her Louth home.

A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death told gardaí that they were probably fighting about something stupid and that she "wasn’t letting him get the better" of her when she stabbed him.

Paula Farrell of Rathmullen Park in Drogheda has pleaded not guilty to murdering 30-year-old Wayne McQuillan, but guilty to his manslaughter by stabbing him four times at that address on January 1, 2014.

A woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death said that he had attacked her, and had several injuries afterwards, including a bite mark to her face.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a house fire in Co Louth.

An investigation has been launched after a suspected petrol bomb attack in Drogheda, Co Louth.

Gardaí are investigating after reports of shots fired at a house in Drogheda, Co. Louth.

The army bomb disposal team has been called in by gardaí in Drogheda after a suspected improvised device was thrown at a house.

A man stabbed 28 times before escaping from the boot of a car that was pushed into a canal near the Battle of the Boyne site, has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he thought he was going to die.

A woman is in a critical condition in hospital following an incident in Drogheda on Friday.

A consultant in emergency medicine earlier testified that Gerard Boyle might have died and presented a ‘surgical emergency’ on admission to hospital that night.

A jury has heard how a woman accused of murdering her partner in Co Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

A jury has heard how a 42-year-old Louth woman accused of murdering her partner in Louth last year allegedly stabbed the deceased four times with a large kitchen knife.

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a suspicious house fire in Drogheda, Co Louth last year in which an elderly woman was seriously injured and subsequently died.

A woman whose brother died from stab wounds on New Year’s Day after it took an ambulance 30 minutes to arrive at the scene has called for vital funds to be made available to reform the over-stretched service.

An independent investigation into concerns that ambulances are arriving dangerously late to call-outs because of chronic service shortages has been brought forward three months due to the serious issues involved.

The HSE’s repeated failure to meet life-saving ambulance target times is set to be examined by the country’s independent medical watchdog.

A 40-year old-woman has appeared in court charged with murdering Wayne McQuillan at their home in Drogheda yesterday morning.

Gardaí are continuing a question a 40-year-old woman over the murder of a man in Drogheda, Co. Louth.

A murder probe was launched last night after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death in Co Louth.

The man who was killed in a knife attack in Co Louth last night, has been named locally as Wayne McQuillan.

A murder probe is expected to be launched after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death.

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 Drogheda man who raped one woman and sexually assaulted another within hours of each other has a previous conviction for attacking another female, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Drogheda man is due to be sentenced today for sexually assaulting one woman and raping another less than two hours later.

A Drogheda man has been convicted of sexually assaulting one woman and raping another less than two hours later.

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

Gardaí will continue questioning a man in Drogheda later this morning in connection with the latest murder in the Co Louth town.

A 19-year-old man was tonight being questioned over the murder of a father-of-two.

A man has been stabbed to death in Drogheda.

Three men are being treated in hospital following an incident in Co Louth this morning.

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.

Gardai have named the two people who died in a house fire in Co Louth in the early hours of this morning.