The parents of a man beaten to death by a neighbour who was undergoing a psychotic episode have told the Central Criminal Court that it is "unacceptable" that someone so dangerous and known to mental health services was living just a few doors from their "defenceless" son.

A murder trial jury has heard that a 32-year-old man admits attacking another man with a crowbar in a "vicious manner" which resulted in his death last year in Sligo.

Richard McLaughlin, with an address at The Laurels, Woodtown Lodge, Sligo is charged with murdering Jimmy 'James' Loughlin on February 24, 2018.

Five people arrested on Friday night in the Ballyfermot and Clondalkin areas of Dublin as part of a Garda operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs appeared in court today

VIOLENCE erupted in Sligo as it emerged the man who killed David Lynch earlier this month may be the same gunman who murdered settled traveller Hughie McGinley in 2005.