A man who acted with others in the stabbing of a 28-year-old faces a retrial after the Court of Appeal overturned his murder conviction in a decision which drew relevance from a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling on joint enterprise.

The lawyer for a woman accused of murdering her colleague by driving him into a harbour where he drowned, said if she had done so deliberately, she would be “committing suicide”.

A woman charged with murdering her colleague by driving him into a harbour, where he drowned, told a paramedic that “he shouldn’t have been there. I drove the car into the water,” her trial has heard.

A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner yesterday pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

A man who acted with others in the stabbing of a 28-year-old in Blanchardstown four years ago, has moved to appeal his conviction for murder.

Lawyers for the getaway driver in the murder of innocent businessman Roy Collins in 2009 have failed in their preliminary attempt to get further access to taped telephone calls prior to the full hearing of their client's appeal against conviction.

The prosecution has finished calling evidence in the trial of a retired army private accused of murdering a prostitute who he claimed blackmailed him for up to €40,000.

State claims former soldier killed woman in a bog four years ago because she was blackmailing him

A judge has refused a Dublin prisoner, who is co-accused with his sister of murdering a 63-year-old man, leave to challenge a decision of the prison authorities not to facilitate his attendance at his mother’s funeral today.

Defence lawyers have told the jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder they can be satisfied that the evidence given by a brother of the deceased cannot be relied upon.

A witness has told the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder that he saw his brother being stabbed four times by the accused man.

A Wicklow man jailed for killing his ex-fiancée's three-and-a-half-month-old baby has brought an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.

A man has been sentenced to five years for setting fire to the bed in his partner and children’s apartment before escaping out the window.

The Special Criminal Court has ordered the disclosure of any recordings made between gardaí and civilian witnesses during the investigation into two Limerick men charged with murdering businessman Roy Collins.

Two men due to stand trial on a charge of murdering businessman Roy Collins five years ago are seeking recordings of communications between garda stations and prisons, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Two Chinese men have been jailed for their roles in a €400,000 cannabis grow house operation.

A convicted killer who raped his 66-year-old mother has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The trial of a man accused of raping his 65-year-old mother on the night of Mother’s Day three years ago has opened at the Central Criminal Court.

A MAN who told gardaí he stabbed another man with two knives after finding the victim in bed with his ex-girlfriend and child has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.

A man accused of raping his 65-year-old mother said today that he had consensual sex with her but denies taking advantage of her.

A 65-year-old woman has denied having consensual sex with her son on the night of Mothers' Day three years ago.

A former underage soccer team coach who sexually abused four boys during the 1990s has received a four-year sentence with one suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man accused of murder stabbed the wrong man to death, his barrister told the jury at his trial in the Central Criminal Court.

A cocaine-addicted father who was caught with almost €140,000 in cannabis resin has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A debt-ridden man who was caught "white-handed" processing €280,000 worth of cocaine has been given a seven-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of attempted murder has heard from a second witness who has said they had difficulty remembering the incident.

The "warehouse man" in a drugs racket has been jailed for 12 years for possessing over €1m worth of cannabis and cocaine in Dublin city centre two-years ago.

A West Dublin teenager who was found in possession of €150,000 worth of heroin has been sentenced to seven years' detention by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 59-year-old father-of-three with no previous convictions was told by Judge Patrick McCartan, "going to prison at this late stage in your life will be difficult", when he gave him a 15-year-sentence for drug dealing.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of rape told the jury in his trial at the Central Criminal Court that he came forward to give evidence on his friend's behalf after reading a newspaper report on the case last week.

A jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father’s house after celebrating her 19th birthday has heard that he denied the allegation during Garda interview.

A Galway cocaine addict who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a Dublin hotel room has been sentenced to three years by Judge Patricia Ryan.

A construction worker who told gardaí he found cocaine with a street value of €24,000 "while out walking" has been given a six-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Swords man who broke a love rival’s jaw with a hammer causing his victim a financial loss of €12,700 due to hospital bills and being out of work, has been jailed for three years by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has increased the prison sentence from one to five years imposed on a Dublin man for stabbing another man in what the court heard was an unprovoked attack.

A Dublin teenager serving a 12-year sentence for the brutal rape of a homeless woman has been given a concurrent three-year sentence for stabbing a man who let him sleep in his flat.

A Ballyfermot man whose "life spiralled out of control" when a boy was killed after falling off the back of his truck faces sentence after €132,000 worth of heroin was found in a ’Moses basket’ in his home.

A Dublin teenager has been jailed for 12 years for raping a woman after knocking her unconscious while she slept rough on a city centre street two years ago.

Two Estonian friends who transported almost €118,000 worth of cocaine into Ireland after swallowing a total of 189 pellets have been jailed for six years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court