A request has been made to elect a trial judge to deal with disclosure and prevent "a media frenzy whipping up a lynch mob mentality" in relation to the upcoming trial of former Anglo Irish Bank executives.

The trial of a man accused of raping a woman in a public toilet in a Cork town has reached its closing stages.

A Garda Chief Superintendant has told the Special Criminal Court that he will not disclose the name of an informant who provided intelligence implicating three Northern Ireland men in IRA activities for fear they will end up “in a shallow grave”.

A Garda ballistics expert has told the Special Criminal Court that an air pistol found in a car in which three Northern Ireland men charged with membership of the IRA were travelling when arrested is not a “BB” gun.

A former addict whose plan to commit a robbery to repay a €40,000 drug debt was foiled by armed gardai has been given an eight year sentence.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer lost his appeal today against the severity of a six-year jail term handed down to him for demanding money with menace.

A young Dublin man will be sentenced at a later date for viciously assaulting an ex-girlfriend in his car after a night's drinking.

A father-of-two is to be sentenced early next year for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.