Judge Francis Comerford lifted previously imposed reporting restrictions on the naming of Jim Harmon

The court ordered gardaí to issue a CRI Alert in respect of three children who were not returned to their mother in England following a purported holiday in Ireland with their father

Aoife O'Leary BL, prosecuting, said the defendant's plea on the first count was not acceptable to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the woman's case would proceed to trial on the charge of murder next year.

Barrister Shane English said restrictions on press coverage of personal injury cases involving minors would have massive ramifications for the media, the public and democracy itself

Judge Carol Anne Coolican said the woman, and a man who allegedly assisted the woman, as well as the boy, all cannot not be named because the case involves a "minor"