The judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly has told jury members to ignore media reports of the case as they are to reach their verdict only on the evidence they hear in court.
It was the second time that Mr Justice Barry White told the jury to disregard any media reports.
He was speaking at the end of the 15th day of the trial of Mr O'Reilly (35) of Lambay View, Baldarragh, Naul, Co Dublin, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Rachel O'Reilly (30) at the family home on October 4th, 2004.
Mr Justice White was addressing the jury after the prosecution's evidence had finished for the day. He reminded them that at the start of the trial, he suggested they pay "little or no heed" to any news reports relating to the trial.
Mr Justice Barry White
He said: "You may have noticed there has been a large amount of publicity in relation to this case."
Referring specifically to today's media reports of the trial, he said he hadn't read the papers but that he did hear a review of them on the radio.
"It certainly seemed to me that some newspapers were carrying what could be called 'lurid' headlines. At the end of the day, you will decide this case on what you hear in court and nothing else."
The judge suggested that if the members of the jury hadn't already read this morning's paper, they might refrain from doing so.
"If there's publicity over the weekend again, I suggest you kindly ignore it," he added.
Former Viacom employee Wesley Kearns told the court today he was working in the company nearly two years before Mr O'Reilly came to work there.
He told prosecuting counsel Denis Vaughan Buckley SC that after about a month of his starting employment there, Mr O'Reilly began to throw his weight around.
He said Mr O'Reilly gave out to him, saying he hadn't put a poster up when he said he had. Mr Kearns said he put the poster up later that day.
Mr Kearns admitted that when the accused fired him sometime later, he threw a fire extinguisher at him. He said Mr O'Reilly then locked himself in his office.
Asked by Mr Vaughan Buckley whether he liked Mr O'Reilly, he said: "I did like him, yeah." He added: "Up until he fired me."
Asked what he was doing on October 4th, 2004, he said he went to the Labour Exchange in Clondalkin between 9am and midday.
Under cross-examination by defence counsel Anne Rowland BL, Mr Kearns said he was re-employed as a billposter by a sub-contractor. He said Mr O'Reilly "didn't like that" and that he barred him from one side of the factory.