THE Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an appeal that could have major implications for the conduct of trials for membership of an illegal organisation at the Special Criminal Court.

A Dublin Sinn Féin member who was jailed for four years for IRA membership last year was freed on bail by the Court of Criminal Appeal today pending the outcome of a landmark legal challenge to anti-terrorist legislation.

The jury in the trial of a 21 year-old Dublin man on trial for the murder a young computer technician will retire on Monday to consider their verdict.

A man who stabbed a young Dublin computer analyst said he was handed a knife by his friend as he left a party and intended only to defend himself and “put frighteners” on a couple of young men waiting outside for him, a murder trial heard today.

A 21-year-old man on trial for murder told one of his friends that he had stabbed another man as they left a house party in the early hours of the morning, a murder trial jury heard today.