Retired garda John Wilson has agreed that intelligence about journalist Ian Bailey was recorded on the Garda Pulse system when the Garda investigation into the 1996 murder in West Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was continuing.

The man who damaged a Claude Monet painting, estimated to be worth €10m, at the National Gallery of Ireland has been sentenced to six years in jail.

Ian Bailey’s High Court action against the State for alleged wrongful arrest during the investigation into the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier could last until Christmas.

Journalist Ian Bailey said he believes to this day that there is a French connection to the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Ian Bailey has told a High Court jury that to his “eternal shame” he was involved in domestic violence in the past against his partner Jules Thomas.

Ian Bailey has told the High Court he experienced a “growing sense” that “something was going on” and he was “chosen to be targeted” when hair and other samples were taken from him.

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.

A Lithuanian construction worker who viciously beat and attempted to rape an 18-year-old student as she walked home after drinking with friends has been given an eight year sentence.

A deaf man replied “I am sorry about him, it was an accident” when he was charged with killing a man who died after he was hit by a bus in Dublin City centre.

A homeless man who started fires at St James Hospital, Heuston Station and James Street causing the evacuation of the station and cancellation of the Luas has been given a seven-year sentence.

Two delivery men have been given seven-year sentences for their involvement with almost €4m worth of heroin and cannabis recovered by gardaí in a surveillance operation last year.

A cocaine-addicted father-of-one who robbed a bookmaker's armed with a small samurai sword has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Dublin man on trial at the Central Criminal Court on charges of sexually abusing a young girl in the city over 20 years ago told gardaí there was a "conspiracy" and the alleged victim was being "led on by someone".

A teenage girl has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she woke to find a Dublin man trying to have sex with her and that he punched her repeatedly in the face when she tried to cry out.

A mother of four who hid a €24,000 stash of heroin in her bra and was then arrested for two further drugs offences while on bail has been given five and a half years in consecutive sentences.

A member of a gang who arrived to rob a bank just after it closed because their stolen get-away car had been delayed in rush-hour traffic has been given a five-year suspended sentence.

A talented footballer and reformed cocaine addict who now lectures transition year students on the dangers of drugs has been readmitted to bail pending sentence on charges of possession of more than €34,000 of cocaine.

A member of a gang who arrived to rob a bank moments after it closed because their stolen getaway car had been delayed in rush-hour traffic has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A homeless English alcoholic - who scavenged for food in supermarket bins - has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for savage attacks on two north Dublin women.

A 75-year-old man who raped his then-nine-year-old granddaughter in a Wexford town in 1994 has been jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

THE falling numbers of male primary school teachers is not because of the high standard of Irish needed, a study has revealed.

A separated mother who stole €18,000 from her employer when she ran into financial difficulties after her marriage ended has been given a suspended sentence and ordered to perform 200 hours community service.

A separated mother who stole €18,000 from her employer when she ran into financial difficulties after her marriage ended is to be considered for community service after repaying the money.

A bouncer who assaulted a man he had turned away at the door of Angel’s lap-dancing club for being drunk, has been fined €5,000 and given a three year suspended sentence.

A bouncer who admitted assaulting a customer he had turned away at the door of Angel’s lap-dancing club for being drunk, has had his sentence adjourned again at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former leas-chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann has been ordered by Judge Katherine Delahunt to perform 75 hours' community service in lieu of a six-month sentence for not declaring a IR£2,500 donation he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop.

A former leas-chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann who failed to declare a donation of IR£2,500 will be given community service to perform by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, subject to a report regarding his suitability for such work.

A former leas-chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann who failed to declare donations exceeding IR£500 will be sentenced at 2pm by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who was being pursued by 20 Garda patrol cars and a Garda helicopter in a "high-speed car chase", because he was driving a stolen Mercedes for a promised eighth of heroin, has been jailed for two years.

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