Two drug mules carrying over €200,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine abandoned their haul and spent a day and a half running and walking from Co Kildare to Dublin to avoid pursuing gardaí.

A gang of three young men and a 17-year-old girl are to be sentenced for luring men using a dating website to a remote area, putting them in fear of their lives, and then robbing them.

A middle-aged man has been given a second prison sentence for the sexual exploitation of young teenage girls by using Facebook.

A man was effectively living in a cardboard box at a growhouse when gardaí raided it.

A Sligo man who killed a five-year-old when he set fire to her house has been jailed for 13 years.

A Sligo man has today been sentenced to 13 years in prison for the death of Mari Connolly-Keane in Boyle last October.

Children's charity Barnardos is renewing its call for a Children's Rights referendum.

The Health Minister says the facts about the Roscommon abuse case must be established before action is taken.

A CONCERNED resident has jumped to the defence of the midlands village at the centre of the Roscommon incest case in light of hard-hitting suggestions by the trial judge that locals stood by as the neglect and abuse took place.

A depraved mother who tortured her six children with years of incest and abuse in a “House of Horrors” in the west of Ireland was jailed for seven years today.

A mother-of-six who pleaded guilty to two counts of incest and two charges of sexual abuse against a son and to neglecting and ill-treating each of her children is due to be sentenced at Roscommon Circuit Court today.