Data from a phone belonging to one of the two boys accused of Anastasia Kriegel's murder contained search engine references to "abandoned places in Lucan" and "the 15 most gruesome torture methods in history," the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with arson after a fire gutted the Lambert Puppet Theatre — home of iconic children’s TV series Bosco and Wanderly Wagon.

A Dublin mother is to be sentenced in May for breaking another woman’s jaw, biting her cheek and pulling out “chunks” of her hair during a drunken fight at a house party.

A judge has deferred a verdict in the trial of a teenager pending a probe into claims he was attacked in Garda custody.

Additional charges were brought today against a defrocked priest accused of possessing thousands of pornographic images of children.

A defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, was remanded on continuing bail today pending directions from the DPP.

More charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two, a court heard today.

Two Ballyfermot men who transported over €500,000 of cannabis resin after falling into debt with criminals because of their cocaine habits have been sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A young Dublin man who rammed a garda vehicle twice with a stolen car has been given a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

A 17-year-old Dublin girl who was having "a bad come-down" on prescription drugs when she scalded her social worker has had her sentence adjourned by Judge Patricia Ryan until November.

Three civil servants and a law agent have received suspended prison terms and a collective fine of €50,000 for corruption in relation to copies of Land Registry Office file plans and maps.

A paranoid schizophrenic Australian who attacked two Welsh tourists in Dublin will spend 18 months in the Central Mental Hospital as part of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.