Two Dublin men were stopped by gardaí in a car which was found to contain 150kg of explosives, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Dublin trainee Montessori teacher who sexually assaulted and took pornographic pictures of a four-year-old child for his own use will be sentenced next month.

A restaurateur jailed for importing cannabis worth €79,000 has had his appeal against conviction dismissed.

A convicted sex offender arrested at Dublin Airport on Monday night has surrendered himself to UK authorities at the High Court.

The lawyer who helped put sadistic murderer Graham Dwyer behind bars for life for the murder of Elaine O’Hara received more than €100,000 for his work on the case.

A man who followed a woman home and attacked her before threatening to sexually assault and kill her has been jailed for five years.

A 71-year-old man convicted of indecently assaulting two young boys in the 1980s must wait to hear whether his two-year prison sentence will be increased by the Court of Appeal.

A former apprentice butcher who stole over €49,000 from his employer during a “drug-induced paranoia” in the early hours of Christmas Eve last year has had his sentence adjourned.

A judge will not decide until after Christmas whether to extradite two men wanted the Netherlands in connection with the death of a man whose body was found inside a suitcase in an Amsterdam canal.

The UK is seeking the extradition of a 39 year old Co Tipperary man on charges including that he alleged stole hundreds of British lottery scratch cards.

An English man who smashed a glass into a woman’s face because an expected “romantic engagement” did not happen has been sentenced to four years with the final 18 months suspended

A man who left obscene and threatening messages on his ex-girlfriend's phone before beating her up believed he was still in love with her at the time, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A Dublin drug addict has been sentenced to two years for selling drugs to pay back his drugs debt.

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment have been given sentences of 14 and 10 years.

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment will be sentenced later.

A thief who pushed his way into the homes of vulnerable people in his locality to steal from them has been given a four year sentence for terrorising a mother of two and a 74-year-old man.

A west Dublin man on trial for attempting to rape a drunk teenage girl told gardaí he had snorted so much cocaine on the night that he "could barely fit it up my nose anymore".

A teenage girl has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she woke to find a Dublin man trying to have sex with her and that he punched her repeatedly in the face when she tried to cry out.

Gardaí had to restore order in the Central Criminal Court after an unruly, triumphalist demonstration by friends and relatives of a Dublin father who was acquitted of raping and sexually assaulting his daughter.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Dublin father who denies raping and sexually abusing his teenage daughter.

A juror has been discharged from the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of raping his daughter.

A Lithuanian national has been convicted of raping and threatenting to kill a 24-year-old Latvian woman.

An interpreter has a Central Criminal Court trial that a Latvian woman "appeared to act a little bit odd for a person who was just raped" when giving her statement of complaint.

A Lithuanian man charged with raping and falsely imprisoning a Latvian woman at two places in Counties Cavan and Meath told gardai she consented to having sex with him.

A Latvian woman who claims she was raped and falsely imprisoned by a Lithuanian man in a Co Cavan town last year has said he harrassed her by phone for several weeks before the incident.

A drug addict who drove a stolen car the wrong way down the M4 Lucan bypass causing six cars, including a garda patrol car, to "take evasive action" has been given a three year suspended sentence.

A talented soccer player who was rejected by a major English club because of his role in a serious assault on a DART passenger has been jailed for six months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who was caught transporting cocaine valued €280,000 and holding €56,500 worth of amphetamines has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A South African who imported almost €20,000 worth of cocaine into Dublin contained within 35 capsules he swallowed in Sao Paolo in the days preceding his flight to Ireland, has been jailed for four years.