The parents of a third child allegedly sexually assaulted by a créche care worker did not think their daughter had been sexually assaulted when she told them she didn't like how the accused touched her.

The trial of a couple accused of the female genital mutilation (FGM) of their daughter has heard the accused man told gardaí that he was fighting FGM and doing everything he could to save girls.

Ellavita Flynn was caught leaving Brown Thomas' Grafton Street store with a €2,280 Luis Vuitton handbag. This item was the only one recovered.

A Leaving Cert student who punched and kicked a fellow pupil in the face in a school corridor, knocking him briefly unconscious, has received a fully suspended sentence.

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 former meditation teacher has been jailed for three years for sexual attacks on a child in the 1970s.

A Dublin fruit and veg wholesaler convicted of sexually assaulting three boys and a young woman in the late 1980s and early 1990s has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, with the final year suspended.

A man who attacked his then-girlfriend in their home over her being “poked” on Facebook by another man has been jailed for two years.

A man who began sexually abusing his step-daughter before her First Holy Communion has been jailed for ten years.

A man who kicked his former partner in the face during an attack and told her that “tonight was her execution” has been jailed for five years.

A man who threw himself in front of a car and then claimed damages against the driver has been jailed for a year.

A jury has found a man whose attempt to kill himself caused a “devastating” gas explosion not guilty of reckless endangerment.

A judge ruled against the State's application to stop the media naming a Christian Brother teacher accused of indecently assaulting children in the 1980s.

"I would imagine a wooden box deep inside me with a big iron lock and I would push those memories into the box with all my might and firmly lock it."

A Dublin man left a bicycle with his name on a sticker attached to it on church grounds after making off with €500 of Mass donations, a court has heard.

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 car linked to an alleged tiger kidnapper was spotted by gardaí near the scene of the crime shortly beforehand, a trial has heard.

A serial burglar who regularly targets pensioners’ homes has been sentenced to 144 years in prison over the course of his criminal career, a court has heard.

A London head chef, who claimed that Dublin Bus has turned his family holiday in Ireland into a nightmare after accusing them of not paying a correct fare, has been awarded damages in the Circuit Civil Court, writes Saurya Cherfi.

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.

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A 77-year-old man who sexually abused his grandniece two decades ago, when she was between 10 and 14 years of age, has been jailed for five years.

Former ‘singing priest’ Tony Walsh has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for raping a boy three times, once with a crucifix.

Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been jailed for seven and half years for raping a boy three times, once with a crucifix.

A new charge of harassment has been dropped against a garda who was previously found not guilty by reason of insanity for harassing a married female sergeant.

Former “singing priest” Tony Walsh, aged 62, faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison for raping a boy with a crucifix, a court has heard.

Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been convicted of sexually abusing a young boy.

A politician, in the first “right to be forgotten” case in an Irish court, claimed he had been banded in a similar category as members of ISIS on a website.