A troubled 17-year-old Dublin boy accused of reaching speeds of 240kph after stealing his mother’s car and leading gardai on a high-speed pursuit has apologised and offered to plead guilty.

A youth accused of using a metal bin lid as a weapon during an assault and robbery at a shop in Dublin has avoided being remanded in custody.

The idea of “passing the parcel” with children is unacceptable, a judge has said as he deferred ruling on an application to revoke a troubled 16-year-old boy’s bail pending a High Court review of his care.

A 17-year-old boy has been denied bail after he faced charges in connection with a taxi hijacking in Dublin.

Chief Justice says cases are being heard in ‘dreadful conditions’

A 17-year-old boy has been sent forward for trial accused of knocking a man unconscious and breaking his jaw with a “hammer-like blow” during an assault in Dublin.

A semi-automatic handgun was “fully loaded and ready for use” when it was found hidden under the bed of a 15-year-old Dublin schoolboy, a court heard today.

A young woman has been accused of possessing a Smith & Wesson revolver and five rounds of ammunition at her home in Dublin when she was 17.

How parents whose children are accused of crime are dealt with must change, say senior legal practitioners.

A 17-year-old boy has appeared before the Children’s Court charged with the murder of a man in Dublin.

Adam Muldoon was found beaten and stabbed in Butler Park in Tallaght at around 6.30am on Saturday morning.

A youth lost his sight in one eye after “slagging” on Facebook lead to a fight at Dublin's St Stephen's Green in Dublin, a court has heard.

Gardaí expect to bring further charges against a 15-year-old Dublin schoolboy accused of a knife attack on a woman after allegedly meeting her through a social media website, a court has heard.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court is due to be told this afternoon that the Director of Public Prosecutions is no longer pursuing prosecutions against the remaining Jobstown defendants.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the Dublin Children's Court.

Daniel McAnaspie’s short life and violent death reflect badly on any notion that State and society have left behind the appalling treatment of children who find themselves beyond the sanctuary of a family home, writes Michael Clifford.

A teenage boy, who was accused of drug dealing with his mother, has been spared a custodial sentence.

A father, who did not believe there was “any harm” in his teenage son skipping school for a year, has been spared a jail sentence.

A teenager found guilty of the false imprisonment of Joan Burton during the Jobstown protest has commenced proceedings to have his conviction overturned.

A teenager is awaiting trial accused of going on a €8,000 spending spree in Dublin with a stolen bank card.

A judge has said it is “unforgivable” that the State cannot provide a placement to a child in care.

A 17-year-old boy is to face trial at the Circuit Court in Dublin for an alleged car-jacking of an elderly man.

A 17-year-old male driver tried to ram two garda cars during a 40-minute morning car chase across south Clare and Limerick City, the Children’s Court has heard.

A 15-year-old boy has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a young Dublin man who died following a fatal Halloween stabbing last year.

A 15-year-old girl has appeared in a court in Dublin accused of possessing a Taser stun gun.

A man who allowed his bank account to be used in a Electric Picnic tickets scam is to be sentenced in January.

Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy said he — along with 26 other anti-water charge protesters facing trial — will have to convince a jury that it is “ludicrous” to equate what they did to Tánaiste Joan Burton in Tallaght last November with false imprisonment.

A 15-year-old Dublin boy has been sent forward for trial accused of being in a demolition gang of burglars who allegedly knocked down an interior house wall in a bid to remove a safe and steal jewellery.

A teenager, charged over a house raid where a mother allegedly escaped by jumping from an upstairs window clutching her baby, has been remanded in custody.

The mother of an 11-year-old boy is facing prosecution after the child missed 133 school days since September.

A man who pointed a bolt action rifle at gardaí in “a threatening and aggressive manner” has been jailed for seven years for this, a burglary and a “mini riot” in a detention centre.

A teenager who torched his care history files in a children’s home has been spared a custodial sentence.

A man’s head was stamped on eight times after he witnessed a row in Dublin city centre, a court has heard.

Funnyman Brendan O’Carroll yesterday revealed how he had a brush with the law at the tender age of nine — and ended up in a tough reform school.

A judge has accused a man who describes himself as a bishop of making a fool of a 17-year-old by pretending that he had married him and taking money from him under false pretences.

A teenage boy and girl are to stand trial accused of raping another teenage girl in Dublin in 2012.

A 17-year-old who has been in custody for 232 days has still not had a probation officer assigned to him, the Children’s Court in Killarney was told yesterday.

Two Dublin teenagers have been charged with the murder of a German student.

A troubled youth, who was battling an alcohol problem, was found dead in his bed in a hostel at the weekend, a judge was told yesterday.