Patrick Quirke told a social worker that Mary Lowry was leaving her three children unsupervised for long periods at weekends and had "lost the run of herself" after becoming fixated on a new relationship, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

DNA matching that of the man accused of murdering the manager of the Sunset House pub in Dublin was found on a baseball cap recovered from the alleged getaway car, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court trial heard that Melanie was shot in the head as she sat in a car with her boyfriend and his friend in Tallaght.

A mother said she would not forget a single detail of the day that her two-year-old daughter died after a road traffic collision involving a 40ft articulated truck.

The lawyers involved in the long-running trial of killer Graham Dwyer shared almost €900,000 in criminal legal aid payments last year.

A man who had sex with a 16-year-old girl he met on Facebook has had the unserved portion of a new 12-month sentence suspended following a successful appeal.

The man serving a life sentence for murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara has brought a High Court challenge against the 23-hour per day lock up regime he is subjected to at Wheatfield Prison.

A Dutch truck driver who received a 10-year sentence for aiding in the importation of €5.6m worth of heroin hidden in a consignment of flowers must wait to learn if his appeal against his conviction has been successful.

A 36-year-old man has failed in an appeal against his conviction for raping his boss' teenage daughter.

A father of two has been jailed after he was captured on CCTV footage taking €250,000 from an AIB employee who had been forced by 'tiger' kidnappers to steal the cash from his workplace.

The father of a Dublin man killed more than six years ago held his dying son in his arms just moments after he had been shot in the back with a shotgun, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

An Albanian man who pleaded guilty to disposing of two pieces of evidence in a Dublin murder case will be sentenced next week.

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

A father-of-two has been given sentences totalling seven years with the final two suspended for possessing a shotgun and ammunition and later being caught holding heroin while on bail.

A Clondalkin man who was caught walking through a park with almost €200,000 worth of heroin in his backpack has been jailed for eight years.

A man who was caught with €25,000 worth of heroin days after he was shot in the neck during a gangland murder has been given a seven and a half year sentence.

A former Meath county hurler will be sentenced later for trying to transport €55,000 worth of cannabis from Dublin to Kerry by train.

A man on trial for murdering a young Dublin woman confessed that he “did her” because she was planning to kill him and take his money, a garda witness told the Central Criminal Court.