A woman who had sex almost 200 times with a 12-year-old boy was today jailed for nine years.

IN her evidence, the victim told the court how she met Foley in a Listowel disco after she had been socialising with friends in the town earlier that night.

THE Rape Crisis Network (RCNI) has said the one-year jail term imposed on a middle-aged man who videotaped himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl was “outrageous” and called for the sentence to be appealed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

AT the time the crimes were committed the girl was so young that we cannot name her.

A one-year jail sentence was imposed this evening on the middle-aged man who videotaped having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

A Latvian woman who claims she was raped and falsely imprisoned by a Lithuanian man in a Co Cavan town last year has said he harrassed her by phone for several weeks before the incident.

The Kelly Noble trial which lasted for just over two and a half weeks at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin revealed a story of two very troubled young women who’s path’s crossed on a summer’s evening in June, producing fatal consequences.

A teenage mother-of-two, who was stabbed to death outside a supermarket, was seen arguing with the woman accused of her murder and repeatedly asked her why she had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant with her three-year-old son, a witness has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

WITH regard to the risk equalisation that may mean BUPA will have to compensate VHI for the fact that the latter’s subscribers are older, whatever next?

Drinks group Merrydown today gave its blessing to a £36.7m (€53.3m) takeover by the owner of the WKD spirits brand.

C&C Wholesale has announced a new distribution arrangement with the Dutch premium lager company, Grolsch.