A man who was renting an apartment to store heroin which he was selling on to street drug dealers has been jailed for five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A notorious rapist has failed in an appeal against his conviction for the rape of an 85-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease but has succeeded in having the last two years of his 21-year sentence suspended.

A retired Central Bank senior administration officer who was in possession of hundreds of thousands of child porn images and videos has been sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to four years and fined €5,000.

The jury in the case of two brothers on trial for murdering a 49-year-old farmer in a dispute over a stray heifer, is expected to begin its deliberations when the trial resumes next Tuesday.

The trial has opened at the Central Criminal Court of a man accused of the sexual abuse and ill treatment of his son

A father of seven who smoked cannabis to relieve chronic neck pain has been jailed for ten years for transporting €19,000 worth of the drug because he was €100 ‘in debt’ to criminals.

A Nigerian lawyer who lives in County Wicklow has been jailed for four years by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland.