The man on trial for murder shouted “I am the king of Mitchelstown”, a witness testified today, adding that his hand was left covered in blood after the accused shook hands with him that night.

The Mitchelstown man on trial for murder said he went home from the pub that night thinking that the deceased would call to his house the next mornin

A woman who killed her violent alcoholic boyfriend, who she said had made her life "a living hell" and whom she had obtained two safety orders against, has been jailed for four years for manslaughter.

A man who admitted to raping a woman who could not remember what had happened the next morning has been jailed for five years.

The lawyer for a woman, who killed her boyfriend, has said her client was possibly under deadly attack from the deceased at the time, and asked her sentencing judge to place the manslaughter within the lower culpability range.

A Co Clare man who raped a 13-year-old girl after chasing her in the grounds of a church has been sentenced to nine years and 168 days imprisonment.

A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a woman charged with murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the chest.

A witness has told the trial of a woman charged with murdering her boyfriend that she noticed that the woman’s neck was blue on one occasion while the accused was in a relationship with the deceased.

A neighbour has told the trial of a woman charged with murdering her boyfriend that the man was "always" the aggressor in the couple’s arguments.

A woman on trial, charged with murdering her boyfriend, told gardaí that she was acting in self-defence when the knife in her hand killed him.

The jury in a Tipperary murder trial has been shown bloodstained clothing and bedding taken from the room where the body of the deceased was found. His girlfriend has denied his murder.

The trial of a woman accused of murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the chest has heard that a garda found the deceased lying on his back with blood around his left armpit when he arrived at the scene.

A woman has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the chest in her Co Tipperary home over two years ago.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has secured High Court orders allowing it to place a teenager being pimped to men by her girlfriend for money and drugs at a secure facility for troubled teens.

The defence lawyer in a rape trial said the accused man walking away from a woman in a laneway after consensual sex may have been ungentlemanly but that was not what the jury had to decide.

The man accused of raping a young woman on a laneway in Cork City told investigating gardaí: “I did not take advantage of her, she took advantage of me.”

A lawyer representing the young man accused of raping a young woman in a laneway in Cork city said today that CCTV shows a man and woman walking arm in arm as they entered the laneway.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of raping a young woman in a laneway in Cork city viewed CCTV of a man and woman walking into the lane together and going in behind a parked van.

A young man has gone on trial accused of raping a young woman in a laneway in Cork city in a case where she gave investigating gardaí different accounts of having sex with one, two and three men.

A young Dublin boy told gardaí investigating a murder that he saw a man shoot another man in his back while the child was out playing with friends.

Cross examination has been continuing at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court of a detective dealing with CCTV footage of suspects.

A convicted killer has been sentenced to an extra five years in jail for co-ordinating a botched cash van raid during which gardaí shot dead his co-accused.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in an attempted armed robbery has today heard evidence of garda surveillance of cars allegedly involved in the heist.

A garda witness has told a trial that he was armed and full of adrenaline when he approached two men accused of taking part in an attempted robbery of a cash van.

Two men have gone on trial accused of the attempted robbery of a cash van during which their alleged accomplice was killed and shot.

A man acquitted of taking part in a gang rape of a woman in her Monaghan home has today been given a suspended sentence for assaulting her boyfriend.

The partner of the alleged victim of a gang rape in Monaghan has said he saw the three accused men in a room “half naked” and heard one man laughing and boasting.

THE High Court has ordered the publication of all but a portion of one chapter of a report into the handling of child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne.

A Donegal man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping a woman who was too sick to resist after a party in the county.

A Westmeath man has been acquitted at the Central Criminal Court of 10 counts of raping and sexually abusing his two daughters and raping his younger brother-in-law over an eight-year period.

The man accused of raping his two daughters and his younger brother-in-law has denied he "interfered" with any child in his life.

A County Westmeath woman has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she watched her three-year-old sister being raped by her father as there was nothing she could do to stop it because she was afraid of him.

A Mayo man who was described during his trial as a "Satan worshipper" has been given a nine year prison sentence for of kidnapping a teenage girl and raping her in his bedroom three years ago.

A woman has told a jury that her father sexually abused her from the age of three to when she was 14 and said to her it was their "little secret" but that her mother would be angry.

A 32-year-old man who raped and battered a woman in April 2002 in a leafy Cork suburb has been jailed for four years by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

A 32-year-old salesman who raped and battered a woman in April 2002 in a leafy Cork suburb is scheduled to be sentenced on January 26 by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

An 18-year-old Kilkenny youth has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 36-year-old woman two years ago.

Mr Justice Michael Peart has told the jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder that it must draw no inference from the fact that the accused has given no evidence. The accused, he said, needs to prove nothing.

The jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder has been told that if the accused is not guilty, he must be the unluckiest man in Ireland to have all the evidence stacked against him.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a Kilkenny teenager told different stories to gardaí and to friends about an injury he sustained around the time of a murder of which he’s accused.