Peter Kane, 49, had secured the Dublin bedsit having come clean off heroin and stabilised on metahdone.

Jonathan Gill (37) was accused of kidnapping a Drogheda postal worker, his partner and their 10-week-old baby daughter before robbing €660,000 from the man's workplace. He denied all the charges.

A father-of-one who was caught with over 4,000 images and videos of child pornography almost seven years ago has walked free from court with a fully suspended sentence.

A man who regularly sexually abused his step-daughter in the family home while her mother was working has been jailed for 12 years.

A man who broke into his ex-partner's home before subjecting her and her teenage foster daughter to a series of violent rapes described as a “night of horror” has lost an appeal against the severity of his 18-year prison sentence.

An experienced garda has told a court that a mother caught with drugs in her flat was “probably the most vulnerable person” he had dealt with in his 10 years in the drug unit.

One of two men caught “red handed” with loaded guns at “optimal readiness”, as well as a can of petrol, has had his 12 year prison sentence cut to 11 on appeal.

‘Everyone is sticking to their guns,’ says jury foreman

A woman denying charges of sexually assaulting her younger brother from when he was aged nine yesterday declared: “It is all untrue, total lies. It is disgusting.”

The man who claimed that his older sister sexually assaulted him was yesterday accused of making up the allegation as a bargaining chip to be used against her when she applied for access to his son.

A Central Criminal Court jury has found a Mulhuddart man who admitted stabbing a father-of-one three times not guilty of his murder but guilty of manslaughter.

A man charged with murdering a father-of-one in north Dublin told gardaí that he stabbed the deceased in the side three times with a knife, his trial has heard.

The trial of a man charged with murdering a father-of-one in north Dublin has heard that the deceased suffered 30 knife injuries, six of which were deep and fatal.

The Special Criminal Court has accepted allegations that a former Sinn Féin Councillor claimed he was in the IRA and threatened the family of a man he had falsely imprisoned and waterboarded.

A former Sinn Féin councillor who waterboarded and threatened to kill a man who he believed was trying to defraud him was not a friend of Sinn Féin TDs Mary Lou Mc Donald and Gerry Adams, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A former Sinn Féin councillor waterboarded and threatened to kill a man who he believed was trying to defraud him, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.

An alleged 'tiger' kidnapper was seen buying a litre of milk at a petrol station in the early hours of the morning of the alleged offence, a jury has been told.

A former Sinn Féin Councillor and his father have pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to falsely imprisoning and threatening to kill another man.

A woman has told a jury that raiders threatened her and her ten week old baby that they would “blow their heads off”.

A postal worker has described how he believed he would never see his partner and baby again during a kidnapping and robbery in County Louth.

A man has gone on trial charged with kidnapping a post office worker, his partner, and their baby before robbing over €600,000 from the man’s workplace.

man goes on trial charged with kidnapping post office worker and famiy

The 10 men and two women on the jury for the trial of a middle-aged sports coach accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 2004 are expected to begin deliberations today.

An 11-year sentence was imposed yesterday on a garda informer who shot a woman in the neck through the window of a house as it emerged that CCTV at the accused man’s own home was the key evidence convicting him.

An eleven-year sentence has been imposed on a garda informer who shot a woman in the neck through the window of a house as it emerged that CCTV at the accused man’s own home was the key evidence convicting him, writes Liam Heylin of the Irish Examiner.

A disqualified driver who was “two and a half times over the limit” when he crashed an uninsured, unroadworthy, and overloaded car, has moved to appeal his 10-year prison sentence for dangerous driving causing death.

A High Court judge will rule whether a mother who is wanted for allegedly abducting her own son should be sent to France to face charges.

A wanted man with a propensity for “extreme violence”, who was brought to the High Court by five officers in full riot gear, must wait to hear whether he will be extradited to the UK where he is wanted for a number of offences.

Two men caught who were caught “red-handed” with loaded guns and a can of petrol with “an intent to endanger life” have been jailed for 12 and 10 years.

Two men caught with loaded handguns and a can of petrol with “an intent to endanger life” following a large-scale garda operation will be sentenced next week.

The arrest of a man who was accused of IRA membership was yesterday ruled unlawful by the Special Criminal Court.

A hearing date has been set for a man wanted for attempted murder and grievous bodily harm in the UK.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of IRA membership has heard evidence of telephone calls warning of explosive devices at University College Cork and the Rock of Cashel in May 2011.

A man wanted by the British authorities in connection with a number of alleged violent offences including attempted murder has been brought before the High Court in Dublin.

A former primary school principal, now aged 81, has moved to appeal his prison sentence for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in the school in west Clare.

A man has been sentenced to five years for setting fire to the bed in his partner and children’s apartment before escaping out the window.

A Limerick teenager who sexually abused his younger stepsister while babysitting her has been sentenced to eight years in prison with the final three years suspended.

The DPP has asked for an order preventing a convicted sex offender from contacting children online after a court heard he was using Twitter to claim he worked for the band One Direction.

A Dublin mother of two who slashed another woman across the face with a Stanley knife, leaving her with a permanent scar, has received a four-year sentence.

A woman who became addicted to morphine medication after an accident at work has admitted forging prescriptions to get the drug.

Two Dublin drug addicts who could not start their getaway car after robbing an Xtra-vision have escaped jail.

A man who assaulted his girlfriend and left her hospitalised for four months with serious brain injuries has been sentenced to six years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

A man who assaulted his girlfriend and left her hospitalised for four months with serious brain injuries has been sentenced to six years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

A man has been sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend leaving him with life threatening injuries.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend in the stomach and chest leaving him with life-threatening injuries.

A Dublin man who assaulted and tied up two French students in their bedrooms during a violent night burglary will be sentenced at a later date.

A convicted killer and registered sex offender whose sexual assault of his former partner was likened to a rape with a machete has been jailed for 13 years.

A convicted killer and registered sex offender whose sexual assault of his former partner was likened to "a rape with a machete" has been jailed for 13 years.