The State is seeking to activate a suspended prison sentence handed down to a Limerick drug dealer who was at the centre of a political storm last year after he was the subject of representation by Fianna Fáil justice spokesman Niall Collins.

Gardaí arrested a rising sports star after chasing him for more than two hours on foot across the Tipperary/Offaly border and over a distance of 4km.

A man who had recently been given publicity for his plans to drive to China to raise funds for a children’s hospice, has been convicted of possession of drugs for sale or supply.

A man left a courtroom in hysterics today when comparing a presiding judge to the character "Judge" from the classic Irish children's television series Wanderly Wagon.

Ambulance crews in the Mid-west will meet tonight to discuss what action to take in protest at the reinstatement of a former colleague who pleaded guilty in court to spying on female colleagues.

An ambulance paramedic who admitted recording a female colleague in the staff toilet for his own pleasure has avoided a criminal conviction after a judge was told how he has put his life in danger saving the lives of others.

A HSE paramedic used his iPhone to spy on female colleagues in a staff toilet.

A man is due in court in Tipperary this evening charged in relation to a serious assault earlier this week.

Two men are due in court later in connection with a drug seizure in Co Laois earlier this week.

TWO courthouses are facing closure despite hundreds of thousands of euro being spent on renovation works over the past decade.

A Tipperary court has heard that a hotel guest downed up to 10 shots of spirits in one glass for a party trick before he died from acute alcohol poisoning.

A FORMER vet has been fined €30,000 after he pleaded guilty to possessing a range of animal medicines without authorisation.

A man has appeared before Nenagh District Court charged with the unlawful taking of a car carrying a four-month-old baby.

THOUSANDS of Irish motorists who were convicted of speeding offences in villages and rural townlands over the last six years may now be able to have those convictions quashed.

A 28-year-old Lithuanian man has appeared before a special sitting of Nenagh District Court charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in the town.

A 50-YEAR-OLD Latvian man appeared at Portumna District Court yesterday in connection with the death of a man in Nenagh, Co Tipperary last Sunday morning.

Four people are due in court tomorrow following a hit-and-run in Abbeyleix yesterday.

THE judge who sentenced Joseph Cummins to 15 years in prison for the brutal rape and robbery of a Tipperary pensioner said he was not out on bail at the time of the offence as a result of “soft sentencing” by members of the judiciary.

GARDAÍ have called on the Government to impose restrictions on the use of tinted windows on vehicles amid growing concern that they may assist both criminals and traffic offenders in avoiding detection.

GARDAÍ may have to sip pints to prove that underage drinkers are consuming alcohol, a judge has ruled.

A man has been charged with murdering 25-year-old Michael Rosney in Belmont, Co Offaly last Thursday night.

The man arrested in connection with last week’s murder in Belmont, Co Offaly is due to appear before a special sitting of Nenagh District Court this afternoon.