Two men involved in an armed raid on a family’s home in Co Limerick have been given jail sentences of seven and five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A Ukrainian man was jailed for four years with the final three suspended after he falsely obtained almost €18,000 in social welfare payments under a dead man’s name.

Former Fine Gael minister Michael Lowry has been sent forward to the circuit court for trial on allegations that he knowingly filed incorrect tax returns.

Independent TD Michael Lowry is being sent forward for trial on charges he allegedly filed incorrect tax returns.

A 72-year-old woman has lost her civil action in a land dispute involving a Government minister and his father.

A junior government minister and his father have been accused of a “thou shalt not pass” approach in a land dispute involving a an elderly neighbour.

A government minister has recalled how an neighbour installed a camera directly facing his home at a time when it was publicly known he was receiving death threats.

A man danced around the motionless body of a 25-year-old he had just assaulted and raised his arms aloft in a “triumphant gesture,” a court heard yesterday.

A 24-year-old Tipperary man has been given a 21-year jail sentence for four unprovoked assaults in Thurles in February of last year.

Two barmen charged with manslaughter after a customer downed a cocktail of shots have been found not guilty on the judge’s orders.

The barman who served a cocktail of shots to a hotel guest who died of alcohol poisoning believed the drink would be shared with his friends, a court heard today.

The amount of alcohol in the system of a hotel guest who died of alcohol poisoning after downing a cocktail of spirits could have changed after death, a court heard.

TWO hotel workers charged with the manslaughter of a guest who died after a night of heavy drinking had received no specific training on potentially dangerous doses or amounts of alcohol, Nenagh Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A COCKTAIL of spirits which more than half filled a pint glass was served by hotel staff to a resident who had been drinking heavily for more than four hours, Nenagh Circuit Court was told.

A civil engineer who died from acute alcohol poisoning after downing a cocktail of shots had challenged friends to drinks races on nights before, a court was told.

AN Englishman celebrating his birthday in a Thurles hotel downed between eight and 10 spirits in a half-pint glass faster than a work colleague drank a half-pint of lager, a court has heard.

Two barmen have denied the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication almost three years ago.

Two barmen are due to go on trial for the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication.

A FATHER told a court how his family will never forget New Year’s Eve 2008 as Padraig, his youngest of nine children, was killed in a “senseless accident”.

THE trial of two barmen charged with the manslaughter of a man who died from alcohol intoxication has been adjourned.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal against the three year jail sentence imposed on a Lithuanian man who struck a pedestrian, who had both legs amputated as a result of the injuries he sustained, while driving a van in a dangerous manner.