A Donegal father-of-six raped his teenage daughter once a week while his wife was away from the house, a court has heard.

A 35-year-old Dubliner shouted "guilty of f*cking what" when a jury convicted him of murdering two men who had arranged to sell him a stolen car.

An uncle who raped and sexually abused his teenage nephew over a period of seven years, and who claimed they were in a consensual relationship, has been jailed for 11 years.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of raping a woman he met on Tinder in September 2014 has been told it can return a majority verdict.

A woman has told the Central Criminal Court that a man who she met on the dating app Tinder raped her in the Dublin mountains on their first date.

A woman has described hearing two gunshots on the afternoon a dissident republican was shot dead outside a pub across the road from her house.

Detectives investigating the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly have denied that offers to drop a murder charge were made to an accused man who turned prosecution witness before he gave a statement about the case.

A dispute over the legality of the detention of two men alleged to have murdered dissident republican Peter Butterly continued today at the Special Criminal Court.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that evidence from 11 members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit in the retrial of two men accused of the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly almost four years ago should be given anonymously and with the public excluded from court.

A 32-year-old man who stabbed his retired psychiatrist mother to death with a kitchen knife before attacking his sister and a passer-by, has been found not guilty of murder and assault by reason of insanity.

A forensic psychiatrist has told a jury that a murder accused who stabbed his mother to death was suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia” and would have been unable to refrain from his actions at the time.

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, a Dublin man became the third person sentenced to life imprisonment for the same gangland murder.

Gardaí traced a can of Red Bull found at a suspected murder scene from a factory in Switzerland to a shop in south Dublin, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The jury has been hearing closing speeches in the trial of a retired member of the defence forces accused of murdering a prostitute.

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.

A retired member of the Defence Forces accused of murdering a woman in Westmeath told gardaí he was being blackmailed by her for up to €40,000 or else she would tell his wife.

The trial of a retired member of the defence forces accused of murdering a woman in Co Westmeath has heard evidence that he had bloodshot eyes and scratches on his hands on the night in question.

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

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that a garda on trial for forging a letter from the DPP was lying to the point of no return.

An officer of the DPP has told the trial of a detective charged with forging a DPP letter that there was no file for a priest the detective was investigating for child abuse.

A detective has gone on trial accused of forging a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the investigation of a priest accused of sexual abuse.

Security arrangements are being made for a former murderer accused turned prosecution witness to give evidence in the Special Criminal Court trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly.

The trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly is "the first case in the history of the state" where a tracking device has been mentioned, a senior garda told the Special Criminal Court today.

A man accused of murdering a father of two in Dublin five years ago was previously stopped by gardaí with the gunman because the car they were travelling in had no tax, a jury heard.

A court in Dublin has heard how a man was shot up to five times in front of his girlfriend and baby boy outside their house in Tallaght.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a Dublin man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for shooting a man in front of his family.

A court has fined Wicklow County Council €355,000 plus legal costs of nearly €96,000 for criminal health and safety violations relating to a warehouse blaze in which two firefighters died.

A Bray fireman broke down a number of times in court while he described crawling through a fire to pull a deceased colleague out of a burning building.

Wicklow County Council has gone on trial in connection with the deaths of two fire-fighters in a disused warehouse in Bray nearly six years ago.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi said he had burned the deceased man’s body and told her there was “nothing like the smell of a dead body”.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi bragged about the killing and claimed “not even people walking their dogs” would find the body.

A jury has heard that Dublin man Adel Essalhi died after a violent assault during which he was struck almost 60 times in the head, neck and arms with a machete-type weapon and a knife.

A Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi gave gardaí directions to where he said the body of a missing person had been dumped in Tyrrelstown, his Central Criminal Court trial has heard.

A “predator” who raped two mentally impaired brothers has been sentenced to eight years at the Central Criminal Court with the final two suspended.

A Clare builder was told by two individuals in a pub that he stood to make between €2,000 and €10,000 per week if he participated in an alleged Vat scam.

A murder trial has heard a bullet taken from the deceased’s body could not be linked to the gun retrieved near the scene.

A murder trial has heard today that a man was shot in the neck while walking with his girlfriend and two children.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that detectives travelled to Austria and Switzerland with a can of Red Bull discovered at the scene of a fatal shooting, in an effort to establish if it had been bought at a Dublin Spar shop.

A Donegal man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of a raping his ex-girfriend in the county almost six years ago.

A man who brutally robbed and killed an 83-year-old man in Co Westmeath last year will be sentenced next week.

A charge of murder against the man accused of killing 83-year-old pensioner Christy Hanley in Westmeath last year has been reduced to manslaughter.

An 83-year old pensioner, who was found dead and tied up at his home in Co Westmeath, was beaten to death and robbed of cash, the prosecution claimed today at the trial of the man accused of the pensioner's murder.

The jury at the trial of a young Cavan man accused of murder has been listening to closing speeches from the prosecution and the defence at the Central Criminal Court today.