In a judgement delivered earlier this year by Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley, the Supreme Court found that life sentences for a child convicted of murder should only be imposed in exceptional cases where the evidence showed their intentions and actions were akin to those of an adult.

Ruth Lawrence, who did not give evidence in the trial and was never interviewed by gardaí, fled to South Africa in the aftermath of the murders and was extradited back to Ireland in May 2023.

The trial continues on Wednesday before Ms Justice Melanie Greally and a jury of nine men and three women.

Keane Mulready-Woods was last seen alive in Drogheda on January 12th, 2020

Anne Rowland SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, on Monday told Mr Justice Paul McDermott that the child's mother, who attended every day of the murder trial, was anxious to attend the sentencing hearing.

John Mackey, 87, was targeted by Peter Augustine, 59, while out shopping in north London on the afternoon of May 6.

Billy Burns had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his 75-year-old mother Miriam Burns

Stella Gallagher (59) died in Cork University Hospital in the aftermath of the stabbing incident in which her husband Brian was also seriously injured.

Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring said that one of the defendants, Mark Lee (44), murdered Josip Strok (31) while acting on weak hearsay evidence from two youths that the deceased and his friend, David Druzinec (29), had assaulted a child.

He is accused of murdering Mr Asic, 60, at Old Navan Road, on October 22nd 2022, contrary to common law.

Darren Kearns (33) of Ashington Dale, Navan Road, Ashtown suffered several fatal gunshot wounds when confronted by a lone gunman just after leaving a restaurant with his wife, Sharon, on December 30th 2015.

The trial has previously heard that that both accused blame the other for the injuries suffered by Mr Foley.

The trial heard evidence that Lawrence had asked about taking a boat out on Lough Sheelin - where the deceased's bodies were eventually found - the day before the men were last seen alive.

Billy Burns (55) of Arlington Lodge, Tralee, is charged with murdering Miriam Burns (75)

Various doctors gave evidence during the trial that when the boy was taken to hospital by ambulance on March 13th, 2021, he had bruises "from head to toe", some of which were considered classic signs of physical abuse.

The youth known as Boy A was sentenced to life with a review after 12 years for murdering the 14-year-old.

Daniel Hourigan and Linda O'Flynn appeared before a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork on Wednesday charged with the murder of Michael 'Mikey' Foley last year

Gardaí received reports of a disturbance at Curragh Hall Crescent, Tyrrelstown, involving a group of individuals on Saturday, November 1st.

Josip Strok and his friend David Druzinec had been drinking all day when they met a 17-year-old boy at a bus stop in Clondalkin and asked him for a lighter

At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, Mark Lee (44) and Anthony Delappe (19) were found guilty by a majority verdict of 11–1 of the murder of Mr Strok (31)

A jury of 10 men and two women at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork found Luke Taylor (28) and Niall Long (33) guilty of the murder of Kieran Quilligan last week following a three-week trial.

Kieran Quilligan (47) from Togher in Cork was last seen alive on September 1st, 2023.

The two accused went on trial earlier this month charged with the murder of Mr Quilligan who was last seen alive on September 1st, 2023.

Niall Long (33) and Luke Taylor (27) are on trial at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork, charged with his murder.

Fergus O’Connor, (41), Scartaglen, Castleisland, Co Kerry, who denied the murder of his brother, Paudie O’Connor, (42), will be sentenced before Christmas.

They said the British authorities had made decisions against extradition - or had failed to make a decision - on numerous occasions over half a century.

Pat Smith, who is a former butcher, told Mr Michael O'Higgins SC, prosecuting, that he was fishing in a boat on Lough Sheelin with another man on May 18th 2014.

Following her arraignment, Michael Hourigan SC, representing Corcoran, asked the court to set a sentencing date in the final week of the court term.

The male juvenile that was receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is currently detained at a Garda station in Dublin.

After the assault, the three men drove to a wilderness area where they disposed of the wallet and gloves containing DNA evidence that later linked them to the crime.

Alex Deady of Glenview, Convent Road, Doneraile, and a juvenile appeared before Mallow District Court in Co Cork on Tuesday afternoon.

Stephen Penrose’s lawyers told the three-judge Court of Appeal they had come to court ready to proceed with the appeal and his decision to dismiss the team had come as “news to us”

George Turner, 56, murdered Emma McCrory (née Costello), 45, by setting fire to her home on December 15th, 2022

Ruth Lawrence denies killing two men found on lake island in 2014

Mr Brennan will appear again via video link at Cloverhill District Court.

A man in his 30s was arrested as part of the investigation and has since been charged.

The electrochemical method can reveal fingerprints on fired ammunition casings, which was once thought impossible. 

Kurt Ryan appeared before Limerick District Court charged with the murder of Lee Slattery, at a location near Moyross, on or about May 28th 2010.

A search was launched for James Meehan (55) after he failed to return to Magilligan prison in Derry while being on day release in December 2024.

Sean Small, 84, was found dead outside his home on Slievenabrock Avenue in Newcastle on Sunday.

The man is due to appear before Newtownards Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

The teenager was arrested by officers in Carrick-on-Suir early on Wednesday. He was taken to Clonmel Garda station for questioning.

A post-mortem examination was completed on his remains on Wednesday and as a result of the state pathologist’s findings, gardaí in Clonmel have now confirmed that their investigation has been upgraded to murder.