A murder accused is alleged to have fatally stabbed a Dublin man with a garden shears outside his mobile home at a Finglas halting site, prosecutors have told a trial jury.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the attempted murder trial of brothers Martin and Patrick McDonagh.

A Tipperary man has been jailed for 15 years for raping a 75-year-old widow after he broke into her house.