The 38-year-old was arrested in the Saggart area.

Complex child protection cases are taking years to move through the courts, plagued by multiple adjournments, poor co-operation between gardaí and social workers, limited judicial resources and limited specialist services for the victims of child sex abuse.

A District Court judge claimed she was not guilty today when charged by fraud squad detectives with false accounting and theft.

A DUBLIN company has become the first in Ireland to be prosecuted for failing to comply with its producer obligations under the WEEE directive.

A JUDGE handling childcare cases has complained that children brought before him because of concerns about their welfare have to make do with overstretched social workers, shortages of court time, ill-equipped accommodation and communication blunders.