A 23-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Christy Daly in County Offaly.

A man accused of inflicting “serious injuries” on a female garda who was struck in the face with a beer keg at the weekend was granted bail yesterday.

A man arrested in Portarlington on Friday has been charged in connection with the seizure of weapons, ammunition and cannabis.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with assault causing harm to an Irish-Canadian woman who was visiting Ireland as part of the Gathering earlier this month.

A man has appeared in court in Offaly charged with assaulting a woman at a festival in Birr earlier this month.

Jailed drug dealer John Gilligan has brought his case to the Supreme Court in a bid to get out of prison.

A lorry driver charged with the murder of pregnant nanny Aoife Phelan is to receive psychiatric treatment in prison.

Aoife Phelan’s family have issued a statement through local priest Father Gerard Phelan, after the man accused of her murder Robert Corbet was brought before a special sitting of Portlaoise District Court this morning.

A lorry driver charged with the murder of pregnant nanny Aoife Phelan is to receive psychiatric treatment in prison.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with the murder of pregnant nanny Aoife Phelan, gardaí have said.

The Special Criminal Court has made no order regarding an application by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan to review the transcript of the sentence hearing where a six-month sentence was imposed on him for the possession of a mobile phone in court.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan has been given a further six months prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to possession of a mobile phone at Portlaoise District Court almost two years ago.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan was given a further six-month prison sentence by the Special Criminal Court today after he pleaded guilty to possession of a mobile phone at Portlaoise District Court in 2010.

A judge today criticised the cost of bringing a charge of having a mobile phone in court against convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan.

FURTHER courthouse closures are likely in 2012 as the Courts Service aims to consolidate services.

Two people have appeared in court in Birr in Co. Offaly charged with possession of drugs with intent to sell.

NINE security providers were prosecuted in the first half of 2011, imposing fines and costs of over €70,000.

JOHN GILLIGAN has been found guilty of possessing a mobile phone in his Portlaoise Prison cell at a sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

THE governor of Portlaoise Prison has denied claims by convicted drug criminal John Gilligan that he allowed high-security prisoners to keep budgies and fridges in their cells.

JOHN Gilligan had a mobile phone and a SIM card in his prison cell when it was searched by gardaí, a court heard yesterday.

Convicted drugs baron John Gilligan appeared in court today charged with having a mobile phone in Ireland’s maximum security prison.

Gardaí in the midlands have tonight called off the search for an Englishman missing since April and now feared to be dead.

Two men in their twenties are due to appear before a special sitting of Portlaoise District court later today in connection with a drugs seizure in Abbeyleix on Friday.

Four men are due in court in the Midlands this evening in connection with Friday’s aborted bank robbery in Co Laois.