Serious questions have been raised over the validity of speeding prosecutions brought to court following the use of Go Safe vans after a judge threw out another 17 cases yesterday.

A judge has criticised the process used by gardaí to issue speeding fines as "bureaucracy gone mad" and said that district courts have unfairly been targeted for criticism by a government minister for "systemic failures".

A 28-year-old Irish man wanted in the US and described by an FBI agent as “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet”, will find out today if he is going to be released on bail.

Last Sunday they were in their local church, full of excitement and energy as they helped their grandmother collect leaflets and tidy up; yesterday they were buried side by side in the graveyard outside as their mother Kathleen, other family, friends, and community looked on.

A man who bit a garda in the groin has been fined €1,000.

A Garda sergeant will face separate trials next year over allegations that he sexually assaulted two female colleagues while on duty at a Dublin Garda station.

A Garda sergeant has denied claims he sexually assaulted two female colleagues while on duty at a Dublin garda station last year.