The parents of a third child allegedly sexually assaulted by a créche care worker did not think their daughter had been sexually assaulted when she told them she didn't like how the accused touched her.

Peter Maguire, 41, was diagnosed with Barrett's disease, a condition of chronic heartburn and reflux which can make the person more susceptible to oesophageal cancer.

A garda child specialist interviewer has said that she didn't follow some of the “good practice” recommendations when interviewing a child about allegations that a care worker sexually assaulted her in a créche.

A mother who repeatedly assaulted her children and threatened to kill them while holding a knife has been jailed for two years.

A number of media organisations have lost their appeal over an order preventing identification of a man who admitted sexual assault and attempted defilement of a child when he was aged 16 and she was 15.

Evelyn Doherty was sacked after serving in the Force for 28 years. She worked in the Crime and Security Section of An Garda Siochána.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Gerard Kane pleaded guilty to burglary at Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute, burglary at Silchester Crescent, Glenageary and handling stolen property on January 20, 2018.

Rosemarie Gallagher, 61, was driving her convertible car when it glanced off a tree, crashed into a stone wall and railings, before it collided with the deceased man Benjamin Renard.

A father of four who was caught after a schoolgirl put a video up on Snapchat of him masturbating in front of her has received a fully suspended prison sentence.

Peter Kane, 49, had secured the Dublin bedsit having come clean off heroin and stabilised on metahdone.