Gardaí have appealed for witnesses after a double stabbing allegedly occurred at a house in Limerick in the early hours of yesterday.

A jazz saxophonist warned his married lover to watch her controlling husband's "every move" the day before she was knifed to death in their study in Newcastle, a court has heard.

THE mother of a young autistic boy wept outside the Four Courts yesterday after the High Court issued a ruling that could force her to sell their family home to meet a legal bill estimated at more than €2 million.