A travelling salesman from Co Wexford who was serving a suspended sentence for sexual assault when he raped a woman has been jailed for five years.

A 41-year-old man facing a trial for rape, sexual exploitation, and defilement of a girl under the age of 17 pleaded guilty to one charge and was remanded in custody yesterday.

A Cork man accused of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home four years ago has walked free after the trial judge directed the jury to enter a not-guilty verdict yesterday.

A Macroom man was put on trial by judge and jury yesterday on a charge of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home exactly four years ago.

An 81-year-old company director who failed to pay almost €340,000 in Vat returns which had been paid to his company by customers was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A 42-year-old man confessed yesterday to three counts of sexually assaulting a girl in the shed of a farm in 1990.

A significant drug dealer caught with almost €90,000 worth of cannabis and €3,000 worth of cocaine at his home in Co Cork was jailed for eight years yesterday.

Seven horses and a farm dog were shot dead by a man with a grudge against his uncle in what the sentencing judge described as “unspeakable cruelty” carried out “without mercy and without any justification whatsoever”.

The only evidence given by a motorist on trial yesterday for careless driving causing the death of an elderly man was to say to the family of the deceased: “I am sorry for your loss.”

A childminder on trial accused of causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby told gardaí that the child was not “violently shaken” or assaulted while in her care.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

A middle-aged man told a jury yesterday he never sexually assaulted his two nephews and claimed they made the complaints because he did not give them money.

A middle-aged man on trial for sexually assaulting his two nephews claimed they were making up the allegations because he refused to give them money.

A woman was sexually assaulted in an “opportunistic” crime after she became drunk and passed out when she came out of a pub, Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A dual-qualified pharmacist and vet has been convicted of impeding officials from the Department of Agriculture as they sought veterinary prescription records from his place of work. He was yesterday fined €10,000.

A former banker, turned financial consultant, played on the worries of friends and acquaintances about the safety of banking money in Ireland in 2011 and got them to pay him €145,000 by deception.

A former restaurateur jailed for 15 years for importing almost €80,000 worth of cannabis featured in a TV documentary on how he had mended his ways after getting a seven-year sentence in 2000 for importing drugs worth over €1.65m.

A Cork man has been jailed for six years for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

A Cork man has received a six year prison sentence for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

A Congolese national involved in classic white-collar crime in Cork, stealing over €324,000 from his employer and trying to steal €300,000 more, was jailed for five years yesterday.

The jury in the trial of the former lord mayor of Cork on charges of sexually assaulting a teenaged girl in the 1990s is due to make a decision today.

Former lord mayor of Cork John Murray admitted touching a teenager’s breasts and vagina when confronted by her years after the alleged incident, but he testified yesterday that he was under duress at that meeting.

Former lord mayor of Cork John Murray — now aged 83 — has gone on trial on six counts of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the 1990s.

A former priest who attempted to rape a young girl and sexually assaulted her brother in west Cork more than 30 years ago has been given an eight-year sentence.

A former priest who attempted to rape a young girl and sexually assaulted her brother in west Cork more than 30 years ago has been given an eight-year sentence.

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.