The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has confirmed that there have been 55 sex offenders jailed for the first five months of this year.

The Irish Prison Service has sought to ease fears of a backlog of sex offenders waiting to enter its tailored treatment programme.

The Irish Prison Service has sought to ease fears of a backlog of sex offenders waiting to enter its tailored treatment programme following criticism from a visiting committee at one of the country's main jails.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has called on a triple rapist not to return to his native city following his release from prison on the grounds that women in the area have expressed fear about his presence in the local community.

An unassuming Irish librarian has been credited as a Nazi codebreaker who helped to alter the course of the Second World War.

A law lecturer who fled England just before he was due to be sentenced for creating indecent images of a child has failed in his third attempt to challenge his detention here, pending his extradition.

A law lecturer who took a ferry to Ireland after an Ipswich jury convicted him of possessing child porn, has lost his latest legal challenge.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is shelling out almost €550,000 on over 29,000 white Y-fronts, dressing gowns, polo shirts and other items of clothing for inmates.

Soldiers in Irish units of the British Army called on to quash the fighting at the GPO,

Prison authorities are struggling to combat the problem of smuggling in Irish jails, with new figures revealing that more than 3,200 drug seizures have taken place in prisons over the past three years.

The need for sex offenders to have access to appropriate treatment services is recognised by Children First, the national guideline for the protection and welfare of children.

The father of a woman sexually assaulted by businessman Anthony Lyons has condemned Mr Lyons’ release from prison yesterday, saying the man never showed any meaningful remorse for his crime.

Convicted killer Mark Nash has lost his High Court bid to be returned from the Midlands Prison to Arbour Hill prison, Dublin, where he has spent the past 15 years.

Convicted murderer Mark Nash has complained about being jeered at in prison and says he has become distressed and depressed because he has no access to work or study.

A serial rapist has been jailed for a further five years after he confessed in prison to two unsolved crimes.

A court has heard a serial rapist who stalked his victims confessed to two further attacks on women after receiving psychological help in Arbour Hill prison.

A High Court judge has awarded €450,000 damages to a woman after finding her life was devastated as a result of being sexually abused by a man over a 10-year period, beginning when she was just four years old.

A woman has told the High Court how her life “was ruined” and her “childhood stolen” by a man who sexually abused her over a 10-year period.

Prison bosses are considering turning St Patrick’s Institution into a jail for sex offenders.

Watching as the prison doors finally closed behind her father, Fiona Doyle sent out a message of hope to rape victims fearful of not being believed: “There will be somebody. Somebody will listen to you.”

Hundreds of comments on social media claiming convicted rapist Larry Murphy may be staying in either North or East Cork have been flatly denied by a number of Garda sources.

The Bishop of Clonfert has said a newspaper claim that he was aware a priest had abused children after he moved him to another parish is "incorrect".

A jailed sex offender wants to bring a High Court challenge aimed at compelling the prison authorities to meet his dietary needs.

A father-of-two who was caught with child pornography, including cartoon images, has been sentenced to two years with 12 months suspended

Concerns have been raised over support given to elderly prisoners in a Dublin jail.

The High Court has dismissed a woman's claim that Garda negligence resulted in her being raped in her own home by a 56-year-old man who had just killed his wife.

Independent Star Ltd., publishers of the Star Sunday newspaper which was found to have defamed a convicted child porn user, has been fined €40,000 for contempt of court.

A woman escaped the grasp of a man who committed a rape two weeks later, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard today.

MEDIA coverage of convicted rapist Larry Murphy’s release from prison was the “most appalling sabotage” of his post-prison life and created a “witch-hunt” that caused deep anxiety among the public, the Irish Prison Chaplains report has claimed.

CONVICTED child porn user Barry Watters is to ask a judge to jail Star Sunday editor Ger Colleran for contempt of court.

A convicted porn user who had openly admitted his guilt and had sought psychiatric help is still capable of having his “residual” character defamed, a judge decided today.

One of the country’s top judges will open the doors to Ireland’s criminal justice system during the first tour of the capital’s iconic new courts complex, it emerged today.

LOCAL politicians and businessmen have expressed their anger at groups spreading false rumours that convicted rapist Larry Murphy is in West Cork.

THE phones were hopping all day at Gorey Garda Station yesterday as rumours spread that rapist Larry Murphy had turned up in the nearby seaside resort of Courtown.

RAPIST Larry Murphy has provided gardaí with an address at which he is residing following his release from Arbour Hill Prison, it has emerged.

THE former governor of Mountjoy Prison has said rapist Larry Murphy should be given a chance to reintegrate into society and that the outcry over his release has been over the top.

WITH a clank of the big blue door, he was out.

THE release of convicted sex offender and attempted-murderer Larry Murphy from Arbour Hill Prison yesterday, having served only 10-and-a-half years of a 15-year sentence, has triggered intense public debate.

THE release of the rapist Larry Murphy from Arbour Hill prison made a mockery of the Government’s promises to deal with such dangerous criminals.

Convicted rapist Larry Murphy is tonight spending his first night as a free man after his controversial release from prison.

Larry Murphy has made a complaint to Gardaí after being pursued by the media following his release from prison.

Convicted rapist Larry Murphy has been released from Arbour Hill prison in Dublin.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today revealed he has no power to interfere in the imminent release of one of Ireland’s most notorious rapists.

The partner of convicted rapist Larry Murphy's brother says she just wants her family to be left in peace.

THE brother of convicted rapist Larry Murphy, due for release next month after 10 years in jail, has insisted the Arbour Hill prisoner will not be living with his family when released.

The High Court has granted permission to a man to bring proceedings aimed at preventing his trial for the murder of two women in Dublin 13 years ago in the well-known "Grangegorman murders" case.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990's has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice George Birmingham for raping an 86-year-old woman in her home last year.

FORMER government press secretary Frank Dunlop has been given 18 months in prison and fined €30,000 for making corrupt payments to politicians over the rezoning of land at Carrickmines in south Dublin during the 1990s.