The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of a man accused of shooting his neighbour in the stomach and who was allegedly shot himself in the ensuing struggle.

A Dublin waste disposal and recycling company is to be sentenced in relation to charges arising out of the death of an employee at one of their centres.

A 63-year-old man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal accused of simulating sex on a seven -year-old girl more than 20 years ago.

A man who drove a stolen taxi directly at a Garda checkpoint and later swerved towards a patrol van after gardaí ran to avoid being hit has been sentenced to six years for this and other offences.

A convicted fraudster who “duped” two men and a garda into buying stolen cars from him has been sentenced to three years consecutive to a four-year term he is already serving for a similar crime.

Nigerian national who was paid €4,000 to carry €65,000 worth of cocaine capsules internally has been jailed for six years for transporting the drugs into Ireland.

A robber has asked a judge in Dublin Circuit Criminal to jail him as he couldn’t give up heroin on the outside.

A Nigerian who burnt his two-year-old son’s face with boiling water and fractured it has been given a two years suspended sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal.

The principal of Blackrock College has told the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial that he met one of the accused and another former student the morning after the incident and they wrote down their versions of what happened.

THE McGowan family visit their son Robert’s grave every Sunday. Nine months after he was killed by a joyrider, the pain of his death is still too much to bear.

A 19-year-old man who stole a car with the owner’s three young children in it has been given a four year suspended sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal.