A man has appeared in court charged with offences related to a barricade incident at a premises in Ballina on Wednesday evening. Mateusz Batiuk, age 34…
Mother-of-two Jasmine McMonagle met a “brutal death” in her own home and was found by gardaí in a “pool of blood” after she was strangled and had “blows reigned upon her” by her "on and off" partner, a murder trial jury has heard.
Gardaí made the decision to force entry to the house where Jasmine McMonagle had been killed after her eight-year-old daughter was seen at the front bedroom window of the property following an hours-long standoff with the accused, a Central Criminal Court jury has been told.