The mother of tragic schoolboy Brooklyn Colbert paid a heartbreaking tribute to her beloved “brown-eyed boy” at his funeral Mass in Limerick today.

A man who threatened to kill gardaí and rape their children when he blitzed a Garda station with a series of abusive calls from Australia has been jailed for almost four years.

Marjorie Gallagher appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court in Co Donegal charged with four thefts of €5,000 from 76-year-old Bridget McLaughlin.

The man, who cannot be named to protect his victim's identity, appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court in Co Donegal.

Kieran Griffin showed no emotion as he was sentenced to a total of three years in prison for a range of sexual offences by Judge John Aylmer at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal.

The manager of a painting and decorating shop who was caught stealing €440 from his company after it installed a secret CCTV system has been jailed for 21 months.

A Judge has listened to the pleas of a tragic family who asked him not to jail the man whose driving led to the death of their son in a car crash in Co. Donegal.

The Director of Public Prosecutions paid the three barristers who prosecuted Seán FitzPatrick just over €1m in the longest running criminal trial in the history of the state.

Lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions have sought access for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to transcripts of the Sean FitzPatrick trial.

It follows yesterday’s decision by Judge John Aylmer to direct the jury to acquit.

A judge has ordered that former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick be found not guilty of hiding millions of euro in loans from auditors.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman, Sean FitzPatrick has said his prosecution for allegedly misleading the bank's auditors about millions of euro in loans was a difficult time for him and his family.

The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick yesterday became the longest running criminal trial in the history of the State.

Warrants obtained by gardaí to search banking premises for evidence during investigations into events at Anglo Irish Bank in 2008 were unlawful and unconstitutional, a jury has heard.

The jury in Sean Fitzpatrick’s trial have been told to return to court next week when it is hoped they will hear from the first witness.

One of Detective Jerry McCabe’s killers will have to spend an extra two years in prison for a vicious two-and-a-half hour attack on his wife.

Two jurors have been excused from serving in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on charges of misleading the bank’s auditors about millions of euro in loans.

The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick has begun at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, where he yesterday denied misleading the bank’s auditors about millions of euro in loans.

Change of evidence by a garda witness in a firearms retrial was a matter of grave concern to the court, a judge has said.

Fachtna Boland, the grandson and adopted son of former Defence Minister Kevin Boland, has settled a court case in which he had sought to evict his natural mother, Síle Boland, who is a daughter of the former minister.

The ringleader behind an “appalling” attack in which a student was “frog marched” to an ATM machine and told to withdraw money or his girlfriend would be raped by two accomplices, has won an appeal against his sentence.

The ringleader behind an “appaling” attack in which a student was “frog marched” to an ATM machine and told to withdraw money or his girlfriend would be raped by two accomplices, has won an appeal against sentence.

A Limerick woman travelled to Cork with a pliers and de-tagger and went on to steal hundreds of euro worth of clothes from retail outlet River Island, as well as two vibrators from a lingerie store.

An “almost suicidal” man who held an imitation handgun under a man’s chin wanted gardai to shoot him, a court has heard.

A drug addict who was caught by gardaí after he took a photograph of himself on a phone which he then left behind in the house he had just burgled has been sentenced to seven years with the final three suspended.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgment in the application of a Dublin man for leave to appeal against his conviction for killing a taxi driver by stabbing him more than 40 times in full view of his girlfriend and young son.

IN Cork, which bears the biggest share of job losses, workers emerging from the affected plants seemed unsurprised at the bad news.

A Donegal man has been jailed for four and half years for having sex with his sister when she was between 12 and 14 years old and sexually assaulting her in their family home over 16 years ago.

A Donegal man has been remanded in custody pending sentence after he admitted to having sex with his sister when she was between 12 and 14 years old and to sexually assaulting her in their family home over 16 years ago.

A Dublin man has received a nine-year sentence with two years suspended for possessing drugs totalling more than €250,000 in separate incidents.

A man accused of raping his ex-girlfriend has told a jury that the complainant attacked him two days before the alleged assault and said she was going "to get me charged with rape and threatening to kill my child".

A woman who alleges her former boyfriend broke into her home and raped her on two occasions last year has agreed that she had earlier sent him a text message saying she could have him charged with rape.

A woman has told a jury that her brother entered her bedroom, put a gun to her husband’s head and twice pulled the trigger.

A man has told a Central Criminal Court jury that his brother-in-law put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger twice as he lay in bed with his wife and two-week-old baby.

The jury in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a taxi driver in Blanchardstown last year began its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tonight on day 12 of the trial.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that a taxi driver was allegedly stabbed to death in front of his partner and two year old son last year in Blanchardstown.

A 23-year-old man who discharged a sawn off shotgun through the sitting room window of a Ballyfermot house in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for seven years.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected appeals brought by a Moldovan man against both his conviction and eight-year prison sentence for starting a fire that caused €2.7 million worth of damage in a Co Cork town.

A Blanchardstown man who burgled five premises in Swords in one night has been given a five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for these and other offences.

The Central Criminal trial of a Limerick student accused of fatally stabbing a 59-year-old man has entered its final stages.

A Limerick man, accused of stabbing a 59-year-old man to death, told gardaí he did not intend to kill the deceased man but had been trying to help him, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Limerick man, accused of stabbing a 59-year-old man to death, was climbing on the roof of his ex-girlfriend's house on the night of the death, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Cavan bachelor who developed "a distorted conception" of his then five to 15-years-old niece as his "life's partner" has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Kerry man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of attempting to rape a 17-year-old girl in a laneway after meeting her at a nightclub on Christmas Eve two years ago.

The trial has opened at the Central Criminal Court of a Kerry man charged with threatening to kill and attempting to rape a then 17-year old girl on Christmas Eve two years ago.