A 32-year-old man consumed a cocktail of drugs before falling to his death from the top of a block of flats in Dublin’s Ballymun, an inquest heard today.

A British-based construction firm was today fined €40,000 for a health and safety breach which led to the death of a four-year-old child.

Recently-convicted Jacqui Noble and Paul Hopkins were refused leave to appeal their sentences for the murder of Derek Benson in the Central Criminal court today.

The jury has resumed its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering her violent partner.

The jury in the trial of a man and a woman accused of murdering the woman's partner was sent to a hotel tonight after failing to reach a verdict.

The jury is expected to retire tomorrow to consider its verdict in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering her violent partner.

A female garda has told a murder jury she was assaulted by a man arrested for breaching a barring order and whose partner is now on trial for his murder.

A man accused of murdering his co-accused's former partner denied telling gardaí that his co-accused offered him IR£5,000 (€6,300) to do the killing.

A man accused of murdering his co-accused’s former partner with a sword has told the Central Criminal Court he went to the deceased’s flat to scare him, but not to kill him.

The former girlfriend of a murder accused broke down in court today as she told how the deceased, whom she described as a "blade merchant", threatened to petrol bomb her and her baby.

A prosecution witness has told a murder trial jury that he gave a sword to his brother two days before a man was hacked to death in Dublin.

Gardaí investigating the killing of a Dublin man who was hacked to death recovered a sword in the wardrobe of the home of the accused’s friend, a murder trial has heard.

A man allegedly paid to murder the partner of his co-accused said he offered to do the killing voluntarily, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A woman accused of hiring an alleged killer to murder to violent partner told gardaí she had previously paid another man to have him shot, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Dublin woman accused of murdering her violent partner signed herself into a psychiatric unit days after the killing, a detective sergeant told the Central Criminal court today.

The trial of two people accused of murdering a man in Ballymun has again been adjourned in the Central Criminal Court for legal reasons.

A murder trial jury has heard how the victim was stabbed and hacked from head to toe in a "sustained and vicious assault" during which the killer attempted to decapitate him.

A murder trial jury has heard how the victim was stabbed and hacked from head to toe in a "sustained and vicious assault" during which his killer attempted to decapitate him.

A man who was stabbed and hacked to death had regularly beaten his partner and threatened to kill her if she left him, the dead man's neighbour told his murder trial.

A prosecution witness has told a murder trial he heard screaming at around 3am on the morning his neighbour was stabbed to death.

A Dublin woman hired a pub doorman to murder her violent partner who was hacked to death and had a sword run through his body from front to back, a joint murder trial heard today.

A man and a woman jointly charged with the murder of a Dublin man in May 2000 have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ suspect that a father of two who was murdered in front of his girlfriend over the weekend was not the victim of a gangland killing.

A post-mortem on a man who was murdered in Dublin overnight reveal that he died as a result of a gunshot wound.

A shot was fired through a front door of a house on Sillogue Road in Ballymun, Co. Dublin today.

A man has died following a fall from the Ballymun flats in Dublin this morning.

Gardai are investigating a fatal fire in Dublin.

A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in a flat in Ballymun in Dublin on Tuesday night.

A man has been charged in connection with the death of a 24-year-old woman in Ballymun on Tuesday night.

Gardai in Dublin have launched a murder inquiry after a 24-year-old woman’s body was found in a flat in Ballymun, in the north of the city, last night.

A man in his thirties has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman in Ballymun, Dublin.

Gardai in Dublin are investigating a suspicious death in the Ballymun area of Dublin last night.