One of North's most wanted criminals has appeared in the High Court today following his arrest on an extradition warrant.

It has been reported an investigation is underway at St Patrick's Institution in Dublin, after a young prisoner claimed he was tied up and sexually assaulted in his cell.

A 17-year-old boy is no longer to be detained in the lock up at St Patrick's Institution following a High Court challenge.

Children's Ombudsman Emily Logan has said that she identified problems at St Patrick's Institution two years ago.

An 18-year-old youth has been sent forward for trial accused of murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy-McNamara who was shot dead in a drive-by attack in Tallaght earlier this year.

A 16-year-old boy who was caught in the Dublin Children's Courthouse with eight deals of heroin hidden in his boxer shorts has been given a six-month sentence.

A “predator” who raped two mentally impaired brothers has been sentenced to eight years at the Central Criminal Court with the final two suspended.

A 16-year-old boy has today been given leave to bring a constitutional challenge to the practice of detaining minors in St Patrick's Institution.

The Children's Rights Alliance has said the practice of detaining young offenders at St Patrick's Institution must stop.

Pressure is mounting on the Government to stop detaining teenage boys in adult prison facilities at Saint Patrick's Institution.

Ireland's leading children's watchdog called today for constitutional reform this year to improve children's rights.

A Dublin youth charged with witness intimidation told gardaí he would pay someone to attack his alleged victim, a court was told yesterday.

A 16-year-old boy awaiting sentence for possessing a flick knife has described one of the State's most secure juvenile detention centres as “too much of a holiday camp.”

A teenage boy has appeared in court this afternoon charged with the murder of a 40-year-old man in Limerick over two years ago.

Care, rehabilitation and education is needed to divert children from a future life of crime, it was claimed tonight.

The Minister for Children has announced plans to construct a new detention centre in Co Dublin to house young offenders from across the country.

Irish parents should be outlawed from slapping their children, one of Europe's top human rights officials said today.

A 22-year-old man has been given an 18-month sentence for his role in the events leading up to the death of a man in Ballymun who remonstrated with a group of youths following the theft of his friend’s car.

A 17-year-old teenager has been jailed for life for the murder of 19-year-old Rebecca Kinsella in her Kildare home last year.

A man in his twenties is due to appear before court in Dublin this morning in connection with the shooting of a garda sergeant three days ago.

A 16-year-old boy, who committed a string of offences while he was involved with a teen gang, was yesterday remanded in custody pending sentence.

A 16-year-old youth was on bail for charges of aggravated burglary and threatening to kill a garda when he led a brutal gang rape in Co Clare, a court has heard.

A 13-year-old boy was grabbed by the throat and kicked and punched by two younger children looking for €1 during an attempted daytime mugging in a suburban shopping centre in Cork.

A former prison governor who indecently assaulted a young girl over a seven-year period has been jailed for three years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

DUBLIN’S new prison will be five-times the size of Mountjoy and will cater for 1,000 inmates.

SOME weeks ago, in an effort to resolve the overtime issue in the prison service, the Prison Officers Association invested a great deal of time and money to produce a package of proposals based on productivity.

The transfer of prisoners from Fort Mitchell Prison at Spike Island in Cork got underway today as part of a plan to close the prison by the end of the month.

FOUR Cork TDs from different political parties have joined forces in an effort to prevent the closure of Fort Mitchell Prison on Spike Island.

A man who beat an elderly trophy-maker with his own trophies before robbing him of IR£130 has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE closure of Ireland’s only open prison for juvenile offenders will make us the shame of Europe, probation workers said yesterday.

A 16-year-old youth who was a passenger in a sports car that killed two gardai has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to three charges arising out of the incident.

A man who claims he was orally raped at blade-point in St Patrick's Institution asked prison warders to bring him a priest after they found him hiding in a toilet cubicle.

The government has promised that new prison places for young offenders are to be provided shortly.

A prison officer who claims he witnessed a colleague breaking a prisoner's jaw said his supervising officer tried to influence him into giving a misleading statement to the governor.

The death of a 19-year-old youth at St Patrick's Institution in Dublin is being investigated.