Specially trained gardaí are to help interview four young children rushed to hospital following an attack at their home over the weekend.

Gardaí were last night continuing their search for a man who escaped from custody for the second time in four weeks.

There were emotional scenes at a Wicklow court yesterday as a man was charged with the murder of Anne Shortall.

A 38-year-old Wicklow man has appeared at Bray District court today charged with the murder of Anne Shortall, a teacher has threatened to go on a hunger strike over proposed Junior Cert reforms, Cork’s St Patrick’s Street could soon see a car ban and Ed Sheeran has announced who he’ll be lining out with at Croke Park. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com.

A Polish woman was charged yesterday with the murder of a former work colleague in Co Wicklow last year.

A 27-year-old woman is to appear in court this morning in connection with the death of a man in his early 30's in Wicklow in March of last year.

A senior data protection official has described as "shameful and shocking" how a number of credit unions helped private investigators dupe civil servants into handing over citizens’ personal details.

Two female private investigators who pretended to be HSE and VEC officials were able to blag personal data from other civil servants to help credit unions find members who had defaulted on their loans.

The body tasked with regulating private investigators has no target date for introducing regulations despite being set up 10 years ago.

A judge has order a psychiatric report be carried out on a man accused of murdering his mother in County Wicklow.

A man has been charged with murdering his mother in County Wicklow.

A man is due to appear in court later following a fatal road collision in county Wicklow in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The father of a man killed in a suspected hit-and-run last night said: "I would love to see the person who did this caught."

A man has appeared before Bray District Court charged in connection with a fatal stabbing on St. Stephen's Day.

A man is due to appear in court this morning charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in Dublin in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Gardaí are hoping to bring charges in connection with three stabbings since Christmas Eve which left two men dead, one in intensive care, and another seriously injured.

A man is due to appear in court charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A man has been remanded in custody after he appeared before Bray district court in Wicklow tonight charged with possessing a gun and ammunition.

A man in his 40s has today been charged with the murder of Stephen O'Meara.

A HUSBAND jailed for contempt of court for failing to pay his wife’s maintenance has been freed by the High Court because he had been given no notice that failure to comply might lead to his imprisonment.

Three men are due in court after they were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to rob a commercial premises in Greystones, Co Wicklow.

A man in his30s is due in court today in connection with a drugs seizure in Co Wicklow.

A man in his 20s has been remanded in custody with consent to bail on two charges of the unlawful possession of handguns.

A man is due before Bray District Court this morning in connection with a firearms seizure yesterday evening.

A COUNTY council was served with a book of evidence yesterday ahead of the trial into the deaths of two firemen in a blaze at a disused factory four years ago.

A former solicitor in Wicklow has been charged with theft and fraud offences in relation to mortgage loans totalling nearly €1m.

Gardaí in Greystones have arrested a 21-year-old male in connection with the discovery of a cash-trapping device that was attached to an ATM, it has emerged today.

A hearing at Bray District Court into the deaths of two Wicklow firemen has been adjourned until October.

Wicklow County Council is due to appear before Bray District Court this morning, on charges arising from the deaths of two firemen.

A HOMELESS man was charged yesterday in connection with the death of a young man in Co Wicklow over the weekend.

A 22-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with the death of a man in Co Wicklow on Friday.

A 22-year-old man is due to be brought before Bray District court later this morning in connection with the death of a man on Friday.

A CO Wicklow nursing home where vulnerable residents sustained serious injury when left unsupervised has been shut down on foot of a court order.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 26-year-old Stephen O'Meara.

A man is due in court this morning charged in connection with the disappearance of 26-year-old Stephen O'Meara from County Wicklow.

SOCIETY’S “detestation” of the crime of burglary has not lessened since times when it attracted the death penalty, a High Court judge said as he refused to stop the trial of an alleged burglar.

HUMAN remains found on a Co Wicklow headland were yesterday confirmed as those of an elderly woman who went missing from a nearby nursing home more than two years ago.

THE family of a pensioner who has been missing for more than two years visited the site yesterday where human remains were found close to where she was last seen.

Detectives are investigating whether a body found today on a rugged headland was that of an elderly woman who went missing from a nearby nursing home two years ago.

THE family of Maura Reynolds, the elderly woman missing since vanishing from a nursing home two years ago, have described as “disgusting” the €2,000 fine imposed on the home owners for failing to take proper care of her.

AN ELDERLY woman who is presumed dead after disappearing from a nursing home might have been recovered if staff had followed proper procedures in caring for her, a judge has said.

Gardaí in County Wicklow have seized 7,000 ecstasy tablets, worth €70,000.

A COUPLE who own a Co Wicklow nursing home from which an elderly woman went missing almost two years ago have pleaded guilty to not maintaining proper care of their patients arising out of the incident.

THE owners of a nursing home where an elderly resident went missing almost two years ago are pleading guilty to failing to provide adequate care for her.