Irish news today: Weather warning, Murtagh found guilty of murder, Harrington Olympic joy

For those that might just be sitting down to catch up on the day’s news, the Irish Mirror is here to bring you all the big headlines and stories from Thursday, August 5.

Daniel Murtagh found guilty of murdering Nadine Lott

Daniel Murtagh, who beat his former partner Nadine Lott to the point where she was “completely unrecognisable”, leaving her with “extreme and grotesque” injuries from which she never recovered, has been found guilty of her murder.

The 12 jurors took five hours and 46 minutes over two days to unanimously reject Murtagh’s defence that he was too intoxicated to have formed the intent to murder his ex-girlfriend and that the “bloodbath” would never have happened “but for the drink and drugs” he consumed that night.

Defence counsel Brendan Grehan SC had asked for a verdict of manslaughter on the grounds of lack of intent due to alcohol intoxication. Murder is a crime of…