A medical doctor has launched a High Court action against the HSE arising out of its plans to provide free GP services to children under six years of age.

A judge has refused a Dublin prisoner, who is co-accused with his sister of murdering a 63-year-old man, leave to challenge a decision of the prison authorities not to facilitate his attendance at his mother’s funeral today.

The case for the prosecution of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara opened with three men standing on a bridge.

The trial of a 42-year-old man charged with murdering Elaine O’Hara in South Dublin more than two years ago has been adjourned until tomorrow.

A man has been acquitted of assaulting a tourist who was partially blinded by flying glass in Co Offaly last year.

A jury has found a man and woman not guilty of the manslaughter of a student who died on New Year’s Day 2012.

The driving ability of a 28-year-old mother, who was involved in an accident which claimed a woman’s life, was severely impaired by alcohol from the night before.

Two men working for a repossession company were told to strip and get into a pen with a wild boar after a confrontation with a farmer, a court was told yesterday.

The parents of Mari Keane-Connolly yesterday said they will never forgive John Lynch for killing their little daughter.

A Sligo man who killed a five-year-old when he set fire to her house has been jailed for 13 years.

Former boxing world champion Steve Collins has alleged the Albanian bouncer accusing him of assault is in a money making conspiracy with other witnesses in the trial.

An Albanian bouncer accusing former boxing world champion Steve Collins of assault after refusing him entry into the National Stadium has said the boxer challenged him to a private fight later that night.

A WOMAN with dyslexia has lost her High Court claim she was discriminated against by the attachment of special explanatory notes to her Leaving Certificate indicating she was not assessed on spelling and certain grammatical elements in language subjects.

The man charged with threatening to kill his Mayo-native former flatmate unless he withdrew a statement he made to gardaí has denied the allegation in evidence at his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Kildare men who had heroin valued almost €160,000 at the Lucan Spa Hotel have been jailed by Judge Anthony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The jury in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial of a woman charged with making false statements that her father raped and sexually assaulted her has been sent to a hotel overnight.

The father of a woman on trial for alleging he raped her was not the father of any of her children as she also claimed, a forensic scientist told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Anthony Hunt has lashed out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at what he called "this trend in modern society for violence to be used as a first resort" in a case which arose from a trivial incident in a chipper.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires, and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a year to continue treatment for her compulsive behaviour before being sentenced.

The sentence of a woman described as a "nut and fruit case" after she made a series of false claims to the Gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, and house fires and of being with a reported abandoned baby has been adjourned again pending a psychiatric report.

A man on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of a serious assault in which the victim lost his only eye denied to gardaí that he had caused the damage.

A taximan has been found guilty by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a then 15-year-old girl who had hailed him to drive her to the city centre.

A Dublin taxi driver has appeared at the Circuit Criminal Court charged with sexually assaulting a young female passenger.