Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan does not emerge unscathed from the Fennelly report, which criticises her failure to respond properly to reports of the recording of non-999 calls in Garda stations, as Cormac O’Keeffe reports.

AT A macro level, it was ignorance, not a deliberate abuse of power. At a micro level, and in one microcosm in particular — Bandon Garda Station — things were a lot murkier, with talk (though no proof) of evidence tampering and improper conduct among certain gardaí.

A jury took an hour and 40 minutes to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of a truck driver charged with careless driving causing the death of a two-year-old girl.

A mother said she would not forget a single detail of the day that her two-year-old daughter died after a road traffic collision involving a 40ft articulated truck, writes Claire Quinn.

A mother said she would not forget a single detail of the day that her two-year-old daughter died after a road traffic collision involving a 40ft articulated truck.

The victims of a Waterford-based paedophile who was yesterday jailed for 14 years and two months have urged anyone else who suffered abuse to come forward and tell their story.

The Supreme Court this week made a ruling that impacts hugely on evidence gathering by gardaí. Cormac O’Keeffe reports on a landmark decision 

A Garda Sergeant who assaulted a member of the public has lost a High Court action to stop her dismissal from the force.

A garda acquitted by a court of assaulting a prisoner has launched a High Court challenge aimed at preventing an internal Garda disciplinary probe into the same incident from going ahead.

A man who admitted that his driving caused the death of an “inspirational” teacher in a head-on collision last year has put flowers at the scene of the fatal crash and met with the victim’s family yesterday, a court heard.

The number and size of fines don’t do enough to deter, reports Claire O’Sullivan.

The High Court has heard an Algerian man wanted on a terrorism charge in the United States went on hunger strike in Cork Prison while awaiting trial there.

The Garda watchdog has criticised members of the force for being “slow” and “less than optimal” in co-operating with an investigation which ultimately led to two gardaí being convicted for assault and another for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Gardaí investigating the execution-style shooting of a man in Co Cork almost six years ago are following new lines of enquiry after identifying the murder weapon.

The trial of a multimillionaire property developer accused of making corrupt payments to a politician is due to go ahead in July.

The former wife of an Irish Muslim charged with threatening to kill a US lawyer said she was “afraid of him” when they separated.

Former Fine Gael town councillor Fred Forsey has been sentenced to six years for corruptly receiving payments from a property developer.

A former Fine Gael councillor convicted of receiving corrupt payments remained a free man yesterday after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until late June.

The sentencing of former Fine Gael Dungarvan town councillor Fred Forsey has been adjourned until next month.

A former Fine Gael councillor will be sentenced next week after being found guilty yesterday on six charges of receiving a total of €80,000 in corrupt payments from a property developer.

Jenny Forsey was not motivated by revenge, she said, when she blew the whistle on her estranged husband.

Evidence in the trial of a former Fine Gael politician accused of accepting corrupt payments had told a rather sordid tale of “jealousy, anger, and rage,” the ex-councillor’s lawyer said yesterday.

A former Fine Gael town councillor has told a corruption trial that the mother of his estranged wife told him she would “stab him to death” if he did not repay €10,000 he had borrowed from her daughter.

A loan agreement, dated Aug 2006 and signed by a former councillor accused of accepting corrupt payments and a developer, was not created until Jan 2007, according to gardaí.

A former Fine Gael councillor told gardaí he asked a property developer for a loan of €70,000 at a time when his marriage was breaking up, his business was failing and he was behind with his mortgage.

The wife of a former town councillor accused of receiving €80,000 in corrupt payments has denied in court that “revenge” was her motive for telling a TD and gardaí about her “suspicions” about her husband.

A Fine Gael TD went to the gardaí as a result of a conversation he had with the wife of a party colleague who is now charged with accepting corrupt payments totalling €80,000, a court heard yesterday.

A THIRD garda was yesterday found guilty of an offence arising out of an assault on a man who resisted arrest after being caught urinating on the street last year.

TWO gardaí will be sentenced in November after they were found guilty last night by a jury of offences arising out of an assault on a man on the street in January 2010.

A GARDA has been found guilty of assaulting a man who resisted arrest while another garda has been found guilty of intending to pervert the course of the justice by diverting a CCTV camera while the assault was taking place.

Two Gardaí have been convicted at Waterford Circuit Court in connection with an assault in the city last year.

A SENIOR counsel representing a garda on trial for allegedly assaulting a man who resisted arrest has said if her client is convicted, the gardaí will “have to rethink how they deal with drunk, aggressive people” from now on.

ONE of the gardaí on trial for allegedly assaulting a man on the street in Waterford took to the witness box yesterday to deny he used “unnecessary force” when restraining the alleged victim.

THE trial of four gardaí accused of offences arising out of an alleged assault on a man last year had to be adjourned when a barrister involved in the case could not be present.

A DOCTOR who examined a man alleged to have been assaulted by gardaí found abrasions on his forehead and nasal area and a bruise on his left bicep, a court heard yesterday.

A MAN has been found guilty of the manslaughter of another man who died nine days after being struck with a hurley during a late-night incident in a city park.

A POSTMORTEM examination on a man who died in hospital after being hit with a hurley revealed he had drugs in his system at the time, a court heard yesterday.

A MAN accused of inflicting a fatal head injury with a hurley told gardaí he did so because he was afraid the victim was going to plunge a knife down his throat, a court heard yesterday.

MEG WALSH told her husband she wouldn’t make a formal complaint to gardaí after he assaulted her if he signed their home over to her, a court heard yesterday.

FIVE men became involved in a “violent row” after a car-ramming incident in broad daylight at a busy city roundabout, a court has heard.

A FORMER council engineer accused of deceiving a superior officer over an €18,920 contract was acquitted yesterday when a judge directed a jury to return a “not guilty” verdict.