Retired businessman Ted Cunningham has been refused an extension of time to appeal his failed High Court challenge in which he claimed the State unlawfully seized some £3m (€3.4m) from his home which gardaí alleged was part of the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in December 2004.

Lawyers for a man found floating in the ocean next to 65 bales of cocaine have told the Court of Appeal that their client was a “bungling stevedore” in one of Ireland largest ever drugs hauls, rather than a “lieutenant”.

The man convicted of raping and killing beautician Rachel Kiely in Ballincollig in 2000 was sentenced to 21 months yesterday for heroin dealing in Macroom.

A jury took less than two hours to reach a unanimous guilty verdict in the case of a priest sexually assaulting a schoolboy in Cork approximately 36 years ago.

A priest has gone on trial accused of indecently assaulting a boy in a Co Cork school sickbay in the early 1980s.

Judgement has been reserved at the High Court in the State's application to dismiss a damages claim brought by Peter Pringle, who served almost 15 years in prison before his 1980 conviction for the murder of two gardaí was overturned as unsafe and unsatisfactory.

The State has asked the High Court to dismiss a damages claim brought by Peter Pringle over his conviction and the almost 15 years he spent in prison before his conviction for the murder of two gardaí was quashed.

A West Cork man aged 53 who plunged the life of a girl of 15 into a very dark place through prolonged defilement, leading to sexual intercourse, was yesterday jailed for four years.

A Dublin man has lost an appeal against the severity of a seven-year prison sentence for killing his partner's son.

Former TV fitness instructor Francis Usanga has been ordered to carry out 100 hours community service to avoid a five-month jail sentence for punching his former partner.

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Jason Scannell shouted at the public gallery as he was jailed for eight years, with the last two suspended.

A heartless son tied up his 68-year-old sick mother and robbed her of the €11,600 she had saved to pay for her funeral.

A family terrorised in their home by a violent gang who savagely beat the father and threatened to kill the children during a late-night burglary are “free for the first time” since the ordeal after learning that their attackers will remain behind bars.

A mother and her daughter murdered in Kerry in 2013 were stabbed at least 72 times between them, an inquest into their deaths has heard.

Five members of a gang who terrorised a young family in 2013 during an aggravated burglary will be in court next month appealing the severity of the prison sentences they received.

A man who had part of his three-year jail term suspended in a harassment case in which he sent a thousand emails to his ex-girlfriend may have breached the terms of the sentence with alleged attempts to contact her from prison.

A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing a man outside his internet cafe in Dublin city centre.

A 77-year-old paedophile, who lured his six-year-old niece to his home with the promise of biscuits before sexually assaulting her, has walked free from court.

An application for the release of jailed Alan Hutch, whose father Eddie Hutch was among the victims of the gangland feud still raging in inner-city Dublin, has been adjourned pending a High Court decision tomorrow.

Daily Mass-going paedophile school principal Patrick Barry has been released from prison back into the community in west Clare after serving only 18 months in jail.

An armed raider of a post office jumped on his motorbike and sped off but took a turn into a dead end and dropped his gloves in his anxiety to get out of the cul de sac.

A six-year legal battle by former nun Nora Wall for damages from the State after her wrongful conviction for the rape of a young girl was certified a miscarriage of justice has settled at the High Court.

A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner yesterday pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

A Limerick man who was jailed for dangerous driving causing the death of a 19-year-old woman claimed yesterday he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed as an “abuse of process” Brian Meehan’s bid to have his conviction for murdering journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment on whether to return a young, first-time offender to jail for a nightclub glass assault, following an “undue leniency” appeal by prosecutors which raised “significant issues”.

A Pakistani man has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court for killing a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

Two ‘dopey’ middle-aged drug mules who spent six days in hospital expelling more than 90 swallowed pellets of cocaine smuggled in from Spain have been each jailed for two years.

A Pakistani man has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court for killing a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

An Englishman jailed for his role in the largest drugs seizure in the history of the State has had his 30-year jail term reduced on appeal to 17 and a half years.

A decision will be made next month in the case of an Englishman who successfully appealed his 30-year prison sentence for his role in the biggest drug seizure in the history of the State.

A man convicted in connection with the biggest drugs haul in the history of the State has appealed his 30-year sentence.

‘Quartermaster’ for international drug gang had €380,000 in cash distributed around his house

Clay angels made in memory of murdered Irish nurse Karen Buckley will go on display as part of an exhibition at a library in Limerick next month.

A man jailed for life for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin has moved to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

Paul Carney, the former criminal law judge who presided over some of the most high profile and controversial cases in recent decades, died yesterday at the age of 72 after a short illness.

The family of murdered Irish student nurse Karen Buckley may have to relive their nightmare: Her killer, Alexander Pacteau, has applied to have his sentence reduced.

A Supreme Court judge has said it is “dispiriting”, despite difficulties with the defence of provocation in Irish law being identified several times over at least 15 years, there has been no “legislative response”.

A Cork judge erred in sentencing an Englishman to 30 years imprisonment for his role in the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the State, the Court of Criminal Appeal has found.

A former Christian Brother jailed for indecently assaulting three boys at a secondary school in Cork in the 1980s and 1990s has been returned to jail following an appeal.