The jurors in the trial of a man, charged with murdering his flatmate, have been told that his "tale of self defence" was an insult to their intelligence.

A Limerick man has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a boy at a Kerry holiday home 36 years ago.

A now 22-year-old man was yesterday jailed for 16 months for having sex with a girl under the age of 15, with whom he had a relationship when both were teenagers.

Man, now 21, had sex with then 14-year-old girl at a sports field between January-March 2014, court told

A Louth taxi driver who travelled to Limerick to collect ‘hot’ cash for criminals discovered that an envelope and a sock he picked up from men at two filling stations contained almost €28,000.

A Kerry grandfather, described as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, has been jailed for 13 years for the sexual abuse of his daughter and two of his granddaughters.

A taxi driver who admitted perverting the course of justice in a road traffic accident in which a young cyclist lost his life near Killarney, has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

A 47-year-old isolated sheep farmer “in the throes of a mental breakdown” who pursued two Kenmare gardaí with a loaded rifle has been given a five-year suspended sentence.

A trial of a man accused of threatening to kill a garda collapsed yesterday, after a member of the jury allegedly told another juror, “it’s all corrupt”.

Taxi drivers are vulnerable to be used by criminals to deliver their ill-gotten gains, a court heard.

A man who strangled his brother to death with a bungee cord before hiding his body in a pit by the Cliffs of Moher has been found not guilty of his murder by reason of insanity.

Accused submerged body in pit at Cliffs of Moher, court hears

Two ‘dopey’ middle-aged drug mules who spent six days in hospital expelling more than 90 swallowed pellets of cocaine smuggled in from Spain have been each jailed for two years.

Members of a Polish family in Tralee suffered terrible consequences when they intercepted a burglar of Russian origin, a sentencing hearing was told.

A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of a Brazilian man in a bog in north Kerry in 2012.

A murder trial jury has been told it has sat through one of the worst set of facts in relation to any murder in the history of the State.

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following an appeal was yesterday sentenced to 11 years, with three suspended, for manslaughter.

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following a successful appeal was today sentenced to 11 years with three suspended for manslaughter.

A 55-year-old man has admitted possession of almost €1.5m in cash found buried in bogland in Co Limerick.

A Clare man who threatened to kill his partner’s nine-year-old daughter if she told anyone of his sexual abuse has been jailed for 13 years.

A Clare man threatened to kill his partner’s nine-year-old daughter if she told anyone of his sexual abuse, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Limerick man jailed for life six years ago has had his conviction for murder quashed on the basis that his trial was unsatisfactory.

Lawyers for the State have told a murder trial jury it is “inescapable” that the accused participated in the death of a man in Dublin more than two years ago.

The passenger in a car driven by a man shot dead in front of his daughter told a murder trial jury he ran when another car pulled up beside him.

A Cavan man who was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of his wife is due to be sentenced on April 20.

The deputy principal of a Louth secondary school has described a man who beat up his ex-girlfriend as pleasant, courteous, and generous.

An 80-year-old former principal has appealed his conviction for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in Moyasta National School, west Clare, over three decades.

The son of a Cavan woman shot by her husband told a murder trial jury that his father said “I don’t want you to come home for my funeral” days before his mother was found dead in the family home.

The jury in a murder trial has heard that the last words a Cavan man said to his wife before shooting her were “the children will come home and bring you back to Australia”.

A murder trial has heard that the cause of death of Patricia Kierans, a mother of four, was a shotgun injury to the chest.

The jury in the trial of a Cavan man accused of murdering his wife has heard that the accused said a prayer moments after the mother of their four children was shot at the family home.

A murder trial has heard that the body of a Cavan woman Patricia Kierans was found by gardai lying on the floor of a bedroom next to a cot at her family home.

A barman has told a murder trial that the accused man aimed a sawn-off shotgun at a garda the same day his wife went missing.

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

Past school friends wept and embraced in court after a jury found a former school principal guilty of 59 indecent assaults over a 21-year period.

Lawyers for two men charged with IRA membership have sought confirmation as to whether telephone calls made by their clients from garda stations were recorded, in what is understood to be the first court case affected by the garda phone taping revelations.

A man lost the sight in one eye in a row sparked by a posting on Facebook, a court has heard.

A man sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a five-year old boy who was in the care of his mother has been returned to jail after a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.