Piotr Baram has been homeless in Ennis for a number of years. He was walking down the street in Ennis when he was knocked over by a bullock that had broken loose from the mart.

An online fraudster who duped 26 music fans out of almost €8,000 worth of non-existent concert tickets for Electric Picnic, Arianna Grande and Hugh Jackman has walked free from court.

A west of Ireland man who is alleged to have threatened to kill his wife in front of gardaí has told a court that he is a prisoner in his marriage and lives in fear of his wife.

There may be an element of people trafficking in the case where a 32-year-old Vietnamese woman is charged with cultivating cannabis at luxury lakeside home, Tinarana House.

A man who suffers from panic attacks and caused over €3,000 worth of damage when trying to free himself from a jammed lift today walked free from court.

A judge has banned a Bus Éireann driver from driving for one year after stating that he “is a danger on the road”.

A 70-year-old Limerick man has been returned for trial concerning an alleged sex assault on a 12-year-old boy in the toilets at Dunnes Stores in Ennis last year.

A 40-year-old Co. Limerick man has appeared in court concerning an allegation that he asked an elderly lady for a "blow-job" over the phone.

A judge has thrown out of a noise pollution claim by a Gort woman against a Christian Church concerning the disturbance from loud drums and amplified music by Church goers below her apartment.

Judge Patrick Durcan visited the bedroom of Sandra Broderick as part of the judge’s judicial field trip into her noise pollution row with a Christian Church.

A judge has jailed a door-to-door broadband salesman for seven months for carrying out a sexual assault on a disabled woman in her 50s in her own home.

A 43-year-old cleaner slapped an 11-year-old girl across the face with his open hand after he saw the child pour liquid over his distressed wife at the Skycourt Shopping Centre in Shannon last September.

A 32-year-old Vietnamese woman charged with cultivating cannabis at Tinarana House told Gardaí that she was forced to do it.

A Vietnamese woman in her early 20s is to appear in court in Co Clare this evening in connection with the seizure of €900,000 worth of cannabis.

A north Clare farmer today escaped jail after a judge heard that he had complied with a 24-hour ultimatum that all sheep be removed from the farmer’s brother’s land.

A wife whose face was beaten ‘black, blue and purple’ by her husband has told a court “I know now I have no ‘boss’ or no one beating me or torturing me for my money”.

Two Limerick brothers today appeared in court charged with the double rape of a young teenage girl in north Clare two years ago.

A 20-year old Limerick man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Jamie Higgins at a Shannon night-club in March of last year.

'I am putting a curse on you. I will light a candle that your family will die and you will suffer grief in the next 12 months...I will take pictures.'

A judge has told a mother that to deprive a child of education “is child abuse of the worst kind”.

A 42-year-old Romanian man, labelled the ‘Beast from the East’ by a judge, is seeking to have his 15-month jail term reduced.

A Shannon mother is back behind bars and will miss her son’s First Holy Communion tomorrow after being caught stealing kids clothes from Dunnes Stores two days before the celebration.

A judge said yesterday that he wanted “some safe refuge” outside prison for a convicted paedophile, Joseph O’Brien.

Three alleged Limerick burglars fled from a rural Clare farm house after discovering that the sole occupant was a man in his 90s asleep in the home.

Four Limerick men have been charged in connection with a burglary at a home in Ennis, County Clare.

Four men are due to appear in court in Co. Clare this morning charged in connection with a burglary.

Latest: A senior Garda has expressed his delight after an attempted burglary of a 95-year-old man on the Kildysart Road near Ennis was foiled by Gardaí this afternoon

A judge yesterday spared a convicted paedophile from spending the next four months in jail.

A 23-year-old man from Co. Clare has appeared before a special sitting of Ennis District Court, charged in connection with the assault of another man.

A man in his 20s is due in court this morning in connection with a stabbing in Co Clare on Saturday.

A 13-year-old boy at the centre of a judge’s threat to jail his parents for Christmas has the learning capacity of a six-year-old due to chronic educational neglect.

A Co Clare man hospitalised his frail 79-year-old mother, already suffering from the lung disease, Emphysema after assaulting her at her home.

A district court judge has set aside a judgement of €14,095 against the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

A pensioner farmer prevented three armed plain-clothes members of a Garda drugs unit from gaining access to his home because he thought they were “thugs in hoodies”.

A judge is refusing to approve the release of €2,000 from a €10,000 compensation payment to send a six-year-old boy and his six siblings on a holiday to Disneyland.

Birds or animals were lucky that they didn’t come across two bags of cocaine left by a drug dealer on a school wall, according to a judge.

A bus driver bringing home Irish rugby fans got into a late night ruck over parking with a taxi driver and punched the man 10 to 15 times in the face and stomach.

A court has heard that a man, charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in Co Clare, told gardaí following his arrest: "Nobody was meant to die that night".

Latest: Gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing which occurred at Marion Estate, Kilkee, Co Clare at approximately 1.15am on Sunday morning have charged one man, aged 21, in relation to the incident and he will appear before Ennis District Court, tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.

A judge has stated that a mother and daughter double act’s thieving spree at Penneys was “purely a training session”.

A 19-year-old Slovakian man has appeared in court charged with the dangerous driving causing the death of GAA coach Eugene McNamara.

A district court judge yesterday accused one of the country’s most popular broadcasters, RTE’s Joe Duffy “and all the great panjandrums of the media” of attacking the courts for not sentencing people, reports Gordon Deegan.

A judge has said he has felt “mentally sick” over the “rotten” fixed charge penalty point system gardaí have in place to prosecute speeding motorists.

A judge yesterday accused radio talk show hosts of whipping up public opinion about courts not dealing with repeat burglary offenders.