Dean Howe, 34, with an address at Oakfield, Dublin 8, was charged with conspiring with others to murder Mr Hanley at a location within the State between September 15 and November 6, 2017.

Prior to sentencing Paul Carroll SC, defending, told the court that his client was assaulted outside the court. He said his client's lip was cut and he was punched.

A Louth man “hounded” by the media for repeatedly being caught with child pornography, according to his lawyers, has had his prison sentence cut on appeal.

A Donegal father-of-six raped his teenage daughter once a week while his wife was away from the house, a court has heard.

Mark had been in care since infancy, but representing Ireland in the Homeless World Cup has helped him find a sense of self-worth, writes Shamim Malekmian.

The prosecutor in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend believes her claim she acted in self defence is a “leap too far”.

Accused: I didn’t tell anyone, I went to work every day

A murder accused was stressed and crying while a search was underway for her housemate and former partner, witnesses have told her trial.

A privately educated schoolboy who fractured another teen’s skull over €50 worth of cannabis has been placed in custody until Monday while a judge considers a sentence.

A large increase in the numbers inquiring about the new bankruptcy regime just weeks after the new one-year term became law shows there is new hope for indebted Irish households, according to an accountancy specialist.

A GAA coach who was jailed for seven years for possessing cannabis was caught for a similar offence when his fingerprints were found during a Tipperary drugs bust, a court has heard.

A Cork man jailed for life last year for the murder of a mother of three in her home has won an appeal against conviction but now faces a possible retrial.

A former teacher and convicted sex offender has been jailed for another three years for sexually abusing three pupils.

Ormonde Mining has expressed doubt about fresh claims from potential suitor, Almonty Industries, that funds are in place to cover a possible takeover of the Irish firm.

There has been a late surge in the number of complaints about the conduct of garda investigations, which is being examined by an expert panel of barristers.

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An increasing number of householders in debt are choosing bankruptcy instead of the new insolvency regime under new, less-restrictive rules in operation since March.

A review of more than 200 complaints about garda misconduct and malpractice has been described as "inadequate" after it emerged that those who made the complaints will not be interviewed.

A former Anglo Irish Bank employee will be sentenced next week for a €200,000 computer fraud at a Limerick branch of the bank three years ago.

A man who abducted his young son and flew him to Egypt during an access visit has been jailed for one year.

Financial experts are predicting that the number of people filing for bankruptcy this year will be double that predicted by the Government.

A psychiatric nurse has gone on trial accused of stabbing and assaulting six people after an 18th birthday party.

A Wicklow woman who stole over €50,000 from her employers, Harvey Norman, has been given a suspended sentence.

As a lengthy court battle began to stave off prepossession, even selling a kidney to raise cash was considered as an option, writes our Riches to Rags columnist

A man who caused the deaths of three people after driving on the wrong side of the road is facing an increase on his four-year term after an appeal by the DPP.

A serial conman who once telephoned RTÉ’s Liveline to talk about his crimes has lost an appeal against a four-year jail term for theft and other offences.

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I’M afraid I had to part company with the lovely Joe Duffy.

A personal debt expert has dismissed attacks on social media as a major cause of suicide, saying financial worry is far more to blame.

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The father of a 27-year-old accused of murdering a man in Co Wicklow three years ago has said his son told him “he was going to be framed for something he hadn’t done”.

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A jury has heard over 60 voicemail messages which a barrister allegedly left on a younger colleague’s phone some of which stated “I want you to be my boyfriend” and one advising the man that he was being watched when he was in the bathroom.

A man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby seven years ago has no previous convictions, a court has heard.

A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that injuries on the child were consistent with abusive head trauma.

A Dublin man who raped 14-year-old girl at knife point after meeting her on the internet has been sentenced to 10 years with the final two suspended.

MILLTOWN-Castlemaine held off the determined Craigbane challenge and secured a Croke Park date in three weeks’ time.

A GOOD first half paved the way for Milltown-Castlemaine to reach the Munster club IFC final at Mallow yesterday as they withstood a strong second-half Newmarket comeback.

FOR the fifth year in a row, there has been a decline in the number of people killed on the country’s roads.

The funerals take place today of two of the victims of Monday's crash in Co Monaghan.

ONE of the three people killed in the horrific car crash in Monaghan on Monday night lost three cousins and an aunt in a separate car accident in 2001.

Gardaí have named the three people killed in a road crash in Co Monaghan last night.

A man who called in a bomb scare to a Dublin nightclub causing it to be evacuated because some of his friends had gone there instead of attending his 21st birthday celebrations has to perform 150 hours community service.

A man on trial for conspiracy to possess drugs has claimed he dropped a car, in which a large amount of drugs was later found, off at a west Dublin car park as a favour for “Mr Martin Hyland”.

Two men have gone on trial accused of conspiracy to possess three quarters of a ton of cannabis resin in west Dublin.

A bank official who confessed to gardai that she had handled a large amount of cocaine that belonged to her boyfriend has been sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Monaghan man charged with raping an 86-year-old woman in her home initially denied in garda interviews that he had ever been in the woman's home but later claimed to have helped a relative "power-wash" her house.