Mr Justice Tony Hunt said that the victim Anthony 'Tony' Tims was attacked by his son Mark in a "place where he ought to have been safe".

Eamonn Cumberton, 32, of Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7, had denied the murder of Mr Barr (35) in the Sunset House pub in Dublin’s north inner city on April 25, 2016.

The three-judge court heard Owen Cummins had driven the jeep straight towards gardaí in a narrow roadway as they restrained his co-accused on the ground.

He is also charged with robbing the man of several items, including two mobile phones and a passport, and of demanding £50,000 (€59,285) with menaces from the man.

A 48-year-old man "viciously" kicked and punched his father to death following a drunken argument on the deceased's 74th birthday, a barrister has told a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.

The High Court heard there were continuing issues with a fresh translation of a “difficult to follow” French court judgement, in which Ian Bailey was found guilty of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder.

Ian Bailey has been arrested outside a courtroom at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, after a High Court judge endorsed the third warrant seeking his arrest and extradition to France.

The High Court will decide later this month whether it will endorse a warrant seeking Ian Bailey’s extradition to France for the murder of filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

"His mother's wiser counsel did not prevail at the time," noted the judge, adding that she had seen him searching for a knife in the kitchen press and told him to stay at home.

The High Court has ruled today that Lord Magan, a member of the British House of Lords, is not entitled to a new tenancy of the €20m Castletown Cox mansion and 500-acre estate in Kilkenny which he had put in trust for the benefit of two of his three children, Edward Magan and Henrietta Black.

A Dublin man accused of IRA membership has been released on bail by the non-jury Special Criminal Court today.

Two Dublin men have appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court this evening charged with IRA membership.

Garda bosses say the “unprecedented” number of gangland convictions in the courts in the last fortnight highlights the “unrelenting” approach of State agencies to tackling organised crime.

A three-man "hit for hire team" have received sentences totalling 36.5 years at the Special Criminal Court for planning to kill a member of the Hutch family before they were intercepted by gardai just 250 metres from their target's home in Dublin's north inner city.

A Cork man who raped his neighbour after she asked him to leave her house has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

An “important and trusted member” of an organised crime gang who was arrested with a loaded gun in Dublin’s north inner city has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court for seven-and-a-half years.

The jury in the case against a man accused of raping a woman who died a year later will resume deliberations today.

A 42-year-old man on trial on charges of raping a 30-year-old woman strongly denied allegations that he threatened she would end up in a suitcase, saying to gardaí that their sexual actions were all consensual.

The trial of a 42-year-old man who is accused of raping a 30-year-old woman, who died a year after the alleged offences occurred, will go into its fourth day on Monday.

The defence in a rape trial put it to the main prosecution witness yesterday that what happened in his presence was consensual sex between the two other parties and that his claims were figments of his imagination.

A convicted murderer has received a 15-year prison sentence for raping a woman in her home nine years ago.

Alan Wilson, who last week pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to a murder plot, has been further charged with three counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting at the Players Lounge pub.

Gangland criminal Alan Wilson has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder Gary Hanley.

A pensioner who put a bomb on a bus bound for Dublin and made hoax bomb threats during Queen Elizabeth’s State visit to Ireland has lost an appeal against his conviction which focused on Irish language rights.

Two men, including the grandson of former Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, have received sentences totalling 14 years at the Special Criminal Court after they were caught with four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade in a densely populated area of Dublin city.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder Gary Hanley.

A "naive" man who made a “catastrophic error of judgment” by opening the gates of his father’s quarry and allowing the IRA to take explosives away has avoided an immediate jail sentence.

Two men who were “in joint control” of 167kg of explosives found inside a car - enough to make a bomb three quarters as large as the one detonated in Omagh in 1998 - have been jailed for total of 15 and a half years.

Two men have been jailed in connection with the "execution" of Aidan "The Beast" O'Driscoll, who was killed on a busy Cork street in a "well-planned" hit as part of an internal dispute between the Real IRA and the New IRA.

A violent burglar used as “muscle” to evict a family from their home, in an attack led by former INLA man Dessie O’Hare, has had his prison sentence increased on foot of an appeal by prosecutors.

Journalist Diarmaid MacDermott covered the 1988 trial of Dessie O’Hare when he was jailed for 40years for the kidnap of dentist John O’Grady in 1987. Here he remembers the dramatic sentence hearing.

Former INLA man Dessie O'Hare, who was known as "The Border Fox", has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court for seven years for his involvement in a gang which evicted a man and his family from their home.

A man has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to possessing four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade.

A man's denial that he knew anything about 167kg of explosives found inside his "heavily laden" car - including detonators sticking out from the passenger seat - has been found to be "totally incredible" by the Special Criminal Court.

A man on trial at the Special Criminal Court gave no reply when asked by gardaí to account for the presence of 150kg of explosives in a car in which he was a front seat passenger, the court has heard.

Armed gardai found four bags of explosives in the boot of a car and 18 detonators under the front passenger seat when they stopped the vehicle on the Naas Road, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Two Dublin men were stopped by gardaí in a car which was found to contain 150kg of explosives, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Monaghan mechanic has been found guilty of IRA membership by the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

Judges at the Special Criminal Court have said they will not now deliver a verdict in the case of Frederick ‘Freddie’ Thompson, who is accused of the murder of David Douglas, until October.