Three children were inside the apartment with their mother, who said her youngest told her he was going to heaven and would come back and help them escape the fire.

A 9-year-old girl grimly held on to her seat to save herself after watching a friend’s mum fall 40ft from a funfair seat, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

A MAN stabbed to death suffered three “deeply penetrating wounds”, two of them seven inches deep, a court heard yesterday.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital today after apparently being hit over the head with a television set during a disturbance in Dublin last night.