Son charged with murder of his father at north Dublin home

Dáire McCormack-George, 29, was remanded in custody with an order that he receive immediate psychiatric care after appearing before Judge William Aylmer at Dublin District Court on Saturday morning

Gardaí were called to a house on Tobersool Lane near Balbriggan in north Dublin on Thursday. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photo

A legal expert and apprentice solicitor has been charged with the murder of his father, who was found stabbed to death in his Dublin home.

Scott George, a finance academic and married father of two in his 70s with adult children, was found dead at the detached house on Thursday night at Tobersool Lane, near Balbriggan.