A 63-year-old man who was punched to the ground by his neighbour suffered enough on the day, a judge said as he struck out the case against the victim for allegedly threatening to put a bullet in the head of the other man.

Police in the North are being accused of dropping their guard in trying to stop attacks against Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) staff.

It commemorates those who died in the Irish revolution.

A large Garda presence and a number of their vans secured the court. The parties left by separate exits. Solicitor for six of the accused, Padraig O’Connell welcomed what the “period of rapprochement”.

Gardaí are believed to be spearheading an international manhunt for a suspect after the “macabre” decapitation of a man in Cork City.

Judge Olann Kelleher sent the case against the accused forward from Cork District Court today to the Central Criminal Court.

The sister of missing Kildare man Trevor Deely has described some of the online speculation about her brother's disappearance as “outrageous” and she called for it to be toned down “several notches.”

Rat infestations, blocked sewers, substandard housing, lack of play areas — a report on Traveller accommodation in Galway city and county paints a bleak picture of the living conditions.

The 23-year-old, who was found guilty on Monday of assaulting a man two years ago, was elected as a councillor earlier this year.

Michael Dineen of Ard Mhuileann, Mitchelstown, was arraigned on the charge of murder of 36-year-old Patrick O’Donnell at Willie Andies bar on New Square, Mitchelstown, on June 1.

TD Michael Healy-Rae’s two sons had denied they assaulted Kieran James after a row broke out in the queue outside a chip van in the centre of Kenmare town.

A “vulnerable” man suffering with a psychiatric medical condition, died in his cell at Limerick Prison after a “systems failure, in relation to his incarceration”, his inquest today heard.

A man who made a hoax 999 call to say there had been a shooting at a pub in order to divert Gardaí who were trying to remove him from his ex-partner's home has been jailed for 15 months.

A man responsible for cash at a McDonald’s outlet pocketed more than €7,000 on trips to the safe has been jailed.

Solicitor for the accused, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client had intended to help the boy's mother as he was misbehaving in the shop.

Gardaí are warning businesses in north county Dublin to be vigilant after a recent increase in credit card related fraud.

Although it deserves to be treated as a serious issue, the recent voting saga in the Dáil is distracting from more important issues, writes Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin.

Two women have been found guilty of assault after a row allegedly sparked on the dancefloor of a nightclub when one defendant began dancing with the boyfriend of the other defendant.

A group of friends stole a keg of Guinness by wheeling it down the road to a house in a shopping trolley.

A man in his 60s who was allegedly raped and sexually assaulted by a young man when he was lying on a duvet on the street in the early hours told a garda at the scene that morning he had told the other man to stop but he refused to do so.

Gardaí investigating the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley at Boreenmanna Road in Cork in July have taken 200 statements and followed 430 lines of enquiry, it emerged yesterday.

Gardaí investigating the death of man in north Cork almost five years ago have arrested two men.

Ireland protects the privacy of its citizens more than any other developed nation, a new study shows.

Gardaí investigating the death of a homeless man in Cork city this morning have called on any witnesses to come forward, and say there may have been a disturbance at the scene of the attack in the hours leading up to the fatal assault.

A woman could face jail over the theft of bags of coal from a shop on four different occasions last winter.

A 56-year-old man appeared at Cork District Court yesterday charged with eight counts of stealing medication at St Catherine’s unit of the Mercy University Hospital over a five-month period last year.

A dismembered finger has been posted through a letterbox in a town in England, police said.