Gardaí today appealed for help in locating an elderly Dublin man missing since last week.

A Mountjoy prisoner on trial for murder has told a jury he was angry and bitter at "the system" when he stabbed his cellmate in the chest as he lay sleeping in bed.

A Mountjoy prisoner on trial for the murder of a cellmate had to be restrained when he got upset in court today.

A Mountjoy prisoner on trial for the murder of a cellmate stuck a dinner knife three inches into his chest as he lay in bed, a prosecution lawyer has told a jury.

A Mountjoy prisoner has pleaded not guilty to the murder of another man in a cell in the jail last year.