A disqualified driver has been jailed for six-and-a-half years and disqualified from driving for 10 years after he killed a “good Samaritan” while drink driving.

A Munster man jailed for sexually abusing his nieces in-law as well as his son and daughter over four decades has moved to appeal his conviction.

A carer for an elderly lady will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after she stole over é30,000 from the retired school teacher.

Donnelly attacked another man, telling him he owed drug money

A student stole computers from his university because he wanted to design a computer game called Angry Pigs to rival the popular Angry Birds, a court has heard.

A university student - who jumped out of a window and broke his leg in an attempt to escape security guards - was stealing computers because he wanted to design a computer game called “Angry Pigs” to rival the popular “Angry Birds“, a court has heard.

A man who hit a 70-year-old man over the head with a crowbar and stole his bus pass has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

A man punched and stamped on a terminally ill cancer sufferer in a city centre alley way, a court has heard.

A serial robber who was “introduced to criminality” by his drug-addicted parents at the age of 10 has been sentenced to 11 years for robbing three of his local pharmacies.

An Englishman wanted in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found in a London flat has appeared before the High Court in Dublin.

A convicted murderer and a Louth man have been sentenced for stabbing two friends after a dispute over a disturbance from a house party.

A Sligo man has been jailed for 15 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his teenage daughter which led to him fathering her child.

Three Mountjoy Prison inmates have received consecutive sentences for their roles in a riot that caused a five hour lock-down and left prison officers with broken teeth.

A Dublin man who was arrested after he reported a garda search of his former home as a burglary has been given a seven year suspended sentence.

The Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin father accused of sexually abusing three of his children has reached its closing stages.

A Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of a Dublin father accused of sexually abusing three of his children has been hearing closing speeches from counsel.

A social worker who interviewed a boy who has accused his father of sexual abuse has told a jury that although he did not initially make a complaint of a sexual nature the child asked to see him again and later disclosed inappropriate touching

A Drogheda man has been given sentences totaling eight years for trying to rob a 72-year-old man in his home, three years after he was jailed for robbing the same man.

A Louth man who tried to extort €25,000 from his late brother’s friend by producing a fake handgun in a pub will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who was caught with property stolen during a number of house burglaries in Co Louth in the boot of his car has been given four-year sentence for this offence, as well as for two burglaries and criminal damage.

A Libyan teenager who threatened to follow an employee of the Refugee Reception and Integration Office home and burn down her house after his request for accommodation was refused has been given a partly suspended sentence.

A Libyan teenager who threatened to follow an employee of the Refugee Reception and Integration Office home and burn down her house after his request for accommodation was refused has had his sentence adjourned.

A man who stabbed his pregnant ex-partner in front of her infant daughter has been sentenced to four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A jury has been discharged in a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sex assault trial because one of its members has six previous convictions and six outstanding bench warrants.

A Limerick man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl over three years ago.

A Love Ulster rioter who was recognised by gardai at his local station when he was shown on the news throwing a bottle at gardaí has been given community service at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The mother of a Dublin teenager who alleges she was sexually abused by her father for over ten years has told of putting her daughter into her husband's bed on New Years Day 2006 because she was drunk.

A teenager has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she wrote a letter to her mother telling how her father had sexually abused her for over ten years but then didn't give it to her.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial of a Corkman accused of raping his two sisters.

A Co Clare man has today been given a 10-year sentence for having cannabis resin valued €815,000 on the M50 last year, which was destined for the Limerick criminal drugs market.

A man who claimed he found nearly half a million euro of "high quality" counterfeit money in a laneway has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Lebanese convicted sex offender with an Australian address, who attacked four women over two days while he was in Ireland attending a wedding, has been sentenced to two years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Sentence on a Galway man for unlawful carnal knowledge of his then 15-year-old sister-in-law has been further adjourned pending judicial review of the recent legislation arising out of the "Mr A" case.

Sentence on a Galway man for unlawful carnal knowledge of his then 15-year-old sister-in-law has been further adjourned pending the outcome of the State’s appeal to the Supreme Court in the "Mr A" case.