Gardaí had to dive for cover when an armed man fired at them in the course of a 13-hour siege at a Sligo house, a court heard yesterday.

A Gaelic football coach has been sentenced to seven years and 10 months and placed on the list of sex offenders for a series of sex assaults on schoolboys.

The driving ability of a 28-year-old mother, who was involved in an accident which claimed a woman’s life, was severely impaired by alcohol from the night before.

There was a dramatic development in the case of a former school supervisor who had already pleaded guilty before a jury of defrauding the Department of Education of more than €24,000.

A 45-year-old mother of two who has accused a nun of indecent assaults told a court yesterday of separate incidents of child sexual abuse by men.

The Irish drugs mule who died in Venezuela was on the run from gardaí and the courts here.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the sentence imposed on a pregnant Sligo woman for perverting the course of justice.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has halved the three-year jail sentence imposed on a computer programmer who downloaded almost 16,000 child pornography images depicting children as young as four.

GARDAÍ are studying a long list of suspects in the murder of gangster David Lynch — a killing that also left a boy with gunshot wounds.

A former Marist brother has had his conviction for indecently assaulting six boys in a Sligo primary school quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

ONE HUNDRED people are plagued by malicious phone calls every day despite the efforts of a special unit set up to deal with the problem.