A man accused of raping his wife on Christmas Day in 2003 has told a court they had consensual sex and he was shocked when she accused him the next morning of raping her.

A Wexford man who orally raped his partner's seven-year-old son after sending the boy's mother out on an errand has been jailed for five years.

A Kilkenny man who stabbed shop worker Mairead Moran to death at her workplace and was found not guilty of her murder by reason of insanity, has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital.

A Donegal father has been jailed for seven and a half years for sexually abusing three young girls in his daughter's bed while they were on sleepovers at his house.

A Donegal woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she falsely claimed her uncle-in-law raped and sexually assaulted her because she resented his wife, her aunt.

A Donegal woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she was helped by gardaí or anyone else in changing the year she claims her uncle-in-law last sexually abused her.

The Court of Criminal appeal has quashed a 61-year-old man's conviction for sexually assaulting his daughter during the mid 1980's when she was a teenager.

A south Kilkenny paedophile who "groomed" his victim with games of strip poker and video-recorded one of his sexual assaults on her has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.