A man who set fire to the house of a detective who was involved in charging him with murder 20 years ago has been jailed for eight years.

A reward of €50,000 has been offered for information that will lead to an arrest or prosecution in relation to the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

An anti-water charges protestor was convicted this evening of assaulting a Detective Garda, while he was on duty, providing protection for the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers, at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

A student advertised a room in her apartment for rental share on Daft.ie but she was sexually assaulted in a bizarre fashion by a man who spoke of bad energy in the rooms before his actions became sexual and he later plucked a hair from her head to put in his wallet.

The wife of murdered Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe has reportedly lodged an application under the Garda Compensation Scheme.

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said gardaí will continue to carry out a "robust and committed" investigation to find those behind the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said investigators are satisfied they know those involved in the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan told mourners at murdered Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe’s funeral that he and his colleagues are committed to bringing his killer to justice.

Hundreds of people have been visiting the family home of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe today to pay their respects.

The Dáil is to be suspended for a number of hours tomorrow as a mark of respect, and to allow TDs attend the funeral of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

A burned out car found in Co Armagh is believed to have been used by the gang responsible for the shooting dead of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth.

MEMBERS of An Garda Síochána are in deep shock; the enormity of the cold-blooded killing of a colleague has not yet fully sunk in.

A former army sergeant has been sentenced to 12 years with six suspended after pleading guilty to raping and sexually assaulting his daughter for over a decade.

GARY “Gold-tooth” Bull made a prophesy hours before his death that he would be killed, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork was told yesterday.

The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

One of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year told detectives hours later that he just wanted to curl up and die and later he admitted stabbing the victim three times, it emerged today.

JOURNALIST Ian Bailey denied telling a teenager shortly after the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier: “I went up there with a rock one night and bashed her f***king brains in.”

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe today praised the courts after her husband’s IRA killers were ordered to pay the costs of their failed bid for freedom.

A man charged in connection with the attempted robbery of a post office in Dublin’s Lusk may be called as a witness at the inquests of two men shot dead by detectives during the incident, a coroner’s court heard today.

Former colleagues of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will gather in Limerick tomorrow for a private memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of his brutal killing by an IRA gang.

The 10th anniversary of the killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be marked with a new RTE documentary.

ALMOST two-thirds of people in Limerick would support the re-introduction of capital punishment for the murder of members of the security forces, a survey on attitudes to crime in the city has found.

The Tánaiste, Mary Harney, has insisted that a decision on whether to release the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will not be made until the Government has held discussions with the Garda Síochána and the McCabe family.

Fine Gael MEP Simon Coveney has slammed the Government's decision to support the release of the four IRA men serving sentences for the manslaughter of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

Political Correspondent Fionnán Sheahan reports on the Morris Tribunal’s findings that Supt Kevin Lennon and Det Garda Noel McMahon planted ammunition and hoax explosives to advance their careers.

Alleged IRA informer and key Morris Tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey is capable of lying about anything and to anybody, the garda corruption probe heard today.

A Limerick man who was a passenger in a stolen car was arrested by Special Branch detectives investigating Continuity IRA activity, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A key witness at the Morris tribunal into garda corruption claims admitted today she received money from both the gardai and a woman with suspected terrorist links for relaying information to them.

A man accused of a cut-throat killing could have taken sleeping tablets or painkillers along with alcohol before he kicked and then stabbed an older man to death in Inchicore four years ago.

A Garda told a murder trial today how he realised that an alleged double murder suspect captured on video footage was a man he had spent four days taking a witness statement from.

AN alleged IRA informant yesterday told the Morris Tribunal how she and two gardaí carried bomb-making equipment into addresses in Co Donegal.

A detective sergeant today denied that he deliberately gave prejudicial evidence in the trial of seven men accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Continuity IRA.