A 42-year-old Dublin man has been charged with murdering his 71-year-old father at the Rosevale flats complex in Artane over the weekend.

A 42-year-old man is due to appear in Dublin District Court today charged with murdering a 71-year-old man in north Dublin over the weekend.

An elderly man has been stabbed to death in the doorway of a flat in Artane in north Dublin.