The country’s judges racked up €1.6m in expenses last year.

Two men were remanded in custody tonight after appearing in court on separate weapons charges.

A Luas driver has been charged in connection a crash with a double decker bus in Dublin city centre, the Court Service confirmed today.

A mother-of-two convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her wealthy partner and his two sons will be sentenced next month, a court ruled today.

The British government ordered an urgent review today of arrangements for storing court documents after the discovery of missing legal papers in the North.

CRIMINALS appearing before the circuit court in Dublin got lighter jail sentences than defendants in the provinces last year, new official figures reveal.

The parents of a teenage girl killed in a horrific multi-death car accident in Co Fermanagh were tonight trying to come to terms with the shock of discovering they had buried the wrong person.

The Court Service moved tonight to dispel fears that files relating to today’s major cross border operation against organised crime had been stolen.

A planned £25m (€37m) takeover of a security firm in the North at the centre of a hospitality corruption investigation has been scrapped, it was revealed tonight.

CORK appears to be the compensation capital of the country, with nearly a quarter of all the State’s circuit court claims heard in the city over a three-month period last year.

A SHARP rise in the number of murder cases coming before the courts was described yesterday by the justice minister as worrying, but he claimed it was reassuring that the garda detection rate is high.