Usually, when a defendant beats the rap as he did, the general reaction is 'he got off' — in Hutch’s case, most who observed the trial came to the conclusion that anything but a ‘not guilty' verdict would have been unjust

Darren Gilligan was a no-show at a courthouse last October where he and his father were among nine people due to take the stand on drugs and weapons charges

It’s rammed full of songs from the 1980s, which feels like a desperate attempt to cover up for the rush job of the script and the plastic characters

The officer who had been arrested is a member of the elite Special Detective Unit of An Garda Síochána

Messages uncovered on an encrypted phone revealed how gang members used code words such as a 'slate of pollen' for cannabis resin, 'tools' for firearms, 'seeds' for ammunition and 'candy', which referred to €108k in cash

The current criminal approach to drugs should not be changed, a former senior garda officer with 45 years of experience in national and international law enforcement has said.

A Co Kildare home seized from convicted drug trafficker John Gilligan by the Criminal Assets Bureau has been turned into a residential unit for teenagers in care.

Policing Authority says gangs are exploiting vulnerable kids in a practice that is now being dubbed a form of child trafficking

Concerns have been expressed about some of the provisions setting up the Security Examiner

Defendant called to wrong house in Mitchelstown area and threatened man in his 60s he would burn his house down, court heard

There is a direct link between “snorting a line or taking a pill” at the weekend and murder, assault, and criminality the following week, Justice Minister Simon Harris has said.

Citizens’ Assembly will give the public an opportunity to better understand how problems like drug abuse, addiction, related health issues and petty crime can be resolved

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Gangland criminal Wayne Bradley from Finglas, who has multiple convictions, has attended local anti-migrant rallies in Dublin in recent weeks

The judges said the court would notify parties if the judgment for the three accused is available before April 17 next

The prosecution told the court the covert recordings show Mr Hutch had authority over the AK-47 rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack

The judge today ruled licence plate evidence against Paul Murphy as inadmissible

The State hopes to be in a position to close the prosecution's case on Tuesday

A voice on the video says: "There they are, there they are in the van, they're not cops, they're not cops."

New law aims to stop criminal gangs from exploiting youngsters to commit crimes

The court also ruled that CCTV footage concerning the movement of a taxi associated with Paul Murphy can be admitted as evidence against him

The court heard that Jonathan Dowdall's assessment for witness protection was "ongoing"

The court had yesterday heard that "a curious development" had arisen which resulted in the "generation of a document" that primarily concerned Gerry Hutch

A man convicted for the attempted murder of James ‘Mago’ Gately has persuaded the Supreme Court to hear arguments that the use of mobile phone data to secure his conviction was a breach of his right to privacy.

The court heard that the trial would conclude in two weeks "subject to matters falling out of the sky"

Mr Hutch's defence counsel put it to Dowdall that he dismissed his conversations with Gerard Hutch in the audio recording as "simply being talk"

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, has denied he used the promise of bomb timers as "a bargaining tool" to get dissident republicans to mediate in the ...

Former Sinn Féin councillor appealing four-year sentence on the grounds of severity 

Mr Dowdall’s time in the witness box won’t be drawing to a close just yet.

The former Sinn Fein councillor also denied talking on the audio tapes about getting "people whacked" and planting bombs

Threat to Dowdall 'on a whole new level', court hears, as he becomes defensive under cross-examination

Party leader says she did not know Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch was present at a fundraising event she attended in 2014

Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA Former Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall has said he told a “lie out of necessity” during garda interviews in 2016 on what he knew about the Regency shooting.

Gerry Hutch's defence lawyer told the judge today that he may cross-examine Jonathan Dowdall until Wednesday next week

The ex-Sinn Féin councillor also said he never knew that Patsy Hutch was involved in crime

A fraught, tense day of cross-examination for State's witness Jonathan Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin councillor said the Hutches were 'willing to throw someone else under the bus' for the Regency Hotel murder

Jonathan Dowdall also told the court that Gerard Hutch lied to him during a conversation that was secretly recorded

The former Sinn Féin councillor told the court, on his first day of giving evidence in the trial, that The Monk told him he was part of the team that carried out the Regency attack.

The Regency Hotel murder trial also heard that Gerry Hutch said he "wasn't happy" about Mr Byrne being killed

Mr Hutch denies the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016

Supreme Court judges delivers ruling on a defence application challenging the admissibility of evidence to be given by ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, who was a former co-accused of Mr Hutch

 A Limerick-based car dealership was used by persons involved in criminality to launder significant amounts of money generated from the illegal drugs trade, the High Court has heard.

Jonathan Dowdall also engaged in a 'very careful choreography' to ensure that only after his murder charge was dropped did he commit to making a statement in writing, Special Criminal Court heard