A man who was found guilty of cruelty to his own son by assaulting him, exposing him to open heroin use and leaving him to sleep on the floor was sentenced to one year of imprisonment today.

Two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae have gone on trial charged, along with a third man, of assaulting a man in Kenmare two years ago.

A 41-year-old Shannon native has had to move house twice since his child pornography downloading offences were made public.

A circuit court judge has hit out at the ‘absolutely outrageous’ conduct of feuding traveller families in Ennis telling them that it is ordinary workers who are funding their legal aid.

A senior lawyer has hit out at the “massive delay” by the State in analysing technical evidence in child pornography cases.

A dispute between Traveller families over who won an organised 13-minute long ‘fair fight’ between two men quickly erupted into a ‘ferocious encounter’ at a halting site where a number of petrol bombs were thrown and other weapons were used.

A retired Irish army weapons instructor who pulled a revolver in a Limerick takeaway after “losing the rag” with two children was yesterday jailed at Limerick Circuit Court.

A woman “tricked” the Department of Social Protection into paying money into an account which she opened in the name of her dead son.

A Listowel man claimed over €35,000 in benefits while employed as “a steel fixer” working six days a week in the construction industry in the UK, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

A Latvian woman living in Limerick married a Pakistani man — despite being already married, a court heard yesterday.

A mother of six was fined €100 at Limerick Circuit Court after she admitted marrying a man while still married to her first husband, writes David Raleigh

A 50-year-old Limerick taxi driver was yesterday found not guilty of threatening to kill a National Transport Authority (NTA) inspector after his vehicle failed a meter verification test.

After a taxi driver’s car failed a fare meter test, he threatened to “put a bullet in the head” of a National Transport Authority inspector, a court has heard.

A Galway man who conned an unsuspecting shop assistant in Killarney into buying “out-of-date contraceptive devices” has been given the Probation Act.

A man who followed customers including children in a Tralee supermarket while masturbating three years ago has “made Trojan efforts” Tralee Circuit Criminal Court has been told and is to be given the Probation Act.

Three Limerick children were robbed by a man who threatened to shoot and stab them on their way to school.

One of Limerick’s most feared drugs and feuding gangs was dealt a massive blow yesterday when two brothers, said to be at the top of the city’s heroin pyramid, were each jailed for eight years.

An 82-year-old man from a village in East Kerry had publically acknowledged his abuse of two women when they were young children, and he was in his forties and fifties, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee has heard.

During planned ambushes on two pizza delivery men in Limerick, one of of the victims, an Indian man, received multiple stab wounds before he ran barefoot through city streets fearing for his life, a court heard.

A Killarney man involved in “a roofing racket” and who has previous convictions for deceiving elderly people in Cork City, was yesterday spared jail for a further deception of an elderly person, this time near his home town, because of “the incapacity” of one of his children.

Kerry farmer shot at his daughter’s partner after drinking

An apprentice jockey who followed a student, bringing with him duct tape and scissors, told gardaí he was angry after she rejected his sexual advances, that he was into bondage, and that he could not control his urges.

A man driving a group home from a 21st birthday party in Limerick collided with a parked car and ended up having his throat slit by the vehicle owner, a court heard.

A number of passengers became violently ill on a small passenger boat which “rolled heavily” on a rough voyage to Skellig Michael, the Unesco World Heritage site, so much so that a complaint was lodged with the Department of Transport, a court in Kerry was told yesterday.

A 15-year-old girl was subjected to a vicious hiding in a daylight brawl in what a judge described as a disturbing attempt at "summary justice".

Three elderly people in Kerry are still living in fear after a scam artist, claiming to work for Irish Water, made cash demands on behalf of the utility.

A 19-year-old Killarney man with a history of breaking into houses and taking keys to go joyriding in cars for days on end has been jailed for two years at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee.

A man whose son had just been given a jail sentence was approached by a 68-year-old man who pretended that the sentenced man had actually been granted bail by the High Court and told them they should hand over €4,000 cash recognizance to him.

Legal costs, paid for by the State, associated with the 14-day trial of a 23-year-old man who denied killing a father of four who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012 have amounted to just under €70,000.

Elderly shoppers and a wheelchair user with special needs had to take cover as bottles of wine flew through the air in a mid-morning battle at a shopping centre.

Friends of a 23-year-old man suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run told yesterday of drinking with him into the early hours, on the day of the incident.

A friend of a man charged in connection with a fatal hit and run told a court yesterday he had phoned the accused and spoken to him on the morning of the crash.

Firearm residue taken from the face, hands, and clothing of a man accused of a gun attack in Limerick strongly supported the suggestion that he was the person involved, a court heard.

Firearm residue taken from the face, hands, and clothing of a man accused of a gun attack in Limerick strongly supported the suggestion that he was the person involved, a court heard.

A four-week-old baby narrowly escaped shotgun pellets which hit the seat in which she had been placed earlier, a court heard.

A schoolteacher, mugged by a violent criminal, picked herself off the ground and chased her attacker to recover a handbag, a court in Limerick heard yesterday.

A man who left a young woman "for dead" after a hit and run incident in Limerick has been jailed for three years.

The 33-year-old man who broke into the Tralee home of Archbishop Dermot Clifford three years ago, escaped being sent back to prison as it seemed he has mended his ways, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told yesterday.

The top earning criminal legal aid lawyer in the country, Frank Buttimer, said yesterday that if legal aid pay rates are reduced any further, it will become uneconomical for lawyers to provide a legal aid service.

A dispute over a betting docket led to a pensioner inflicting stab wounds on a fellow punter in a Limerick pub where they watched on television a horse they backed, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

One of the country’s most under-threat women sat in a Limerick court and heard that her partner, a notorious rapist, was now a changed man since meeting her and having a child with her.

Limerick man Damien Collopy will be released next week after the Court of Criminal Appeal suspended the remaining three months of his five-year jail term for making threats to kill.

A mass brawl in a pub “was like a scene out of a Wild West movie”, a garda told a court yesterday.

A judge said he respected religious beliefs but that the law of Ireland had to be observed as he sentenced a Somali man for slaughtering four goats in Halal fashion in a house in Tralee.