A teenager charged with vandalising a church in Wicklow has been refused bail at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A young Co Clare couple yesterday appeared in court charged in connection with the alleged blackmail and false imprisonment of a pensioner who was living by himself at the time.

Bail was yesterday refused for a Limerick man who, it was claimed, made full and frank admissions of being the driver of a car which struck three elderly men in Parteen village last Thursday while being pursued by gardaí.

Sentencing has been adjourned for two men, one of them from Dublin, in connection with the racial abuse of former Manchester United footballer Andy Cole on a plane.

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Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law is likely to have vast knowledge of al Qaida’s central command, intelligence experts say.

Bail was refused yesterday to the Corkman who wanted to attend the funeral of his brother, whose body was found in a plastic bag at a flat in Dublin.

Bail has been refused for a 22-year-old Dublin man who was today charged in connection with the stabbing of an Isle of Man tourist at last Saturday's Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park.

The estranged father of 'Mean Girls' actress Lindsay Lohan made his first appearance in court on domestic violence charges.

Michael Lohan has been arrested for battery domestic violence.

'Mean Girls' actress Lindsay Lohan's father has been arrested over allegations that he held his girlfriend against her will and prevented her from calling emergency services.

'Mean Girls' actress Lindsay Lohan’s father has been arrested over allegations that he held his girlfriend against her will and prevented her from calling emergency services.

A father-of-nine has appeared in court in Dublin charged in connection with a shooting at the Smithfield Horse Fair last week.

American actor Randy Quaid has been arrested, it has emerged today.

A US judge has ordered three Russian spying suspects to be kept detained, saying she considered “the defendants at risk of flight”.

Irish student Natasha McShane, who suffered serious head injuries after she was attacked by a mugger in Chicago last month, is out of a coma.

A respected TV producer accused of trying to blackmail chat show host David Letterman for $2m (€1.4m) was desperate and deep in debt, prosecutors said.

A former Bahamas senator was granted bail today on charges she conspired to help extort $25m (€18.8m) from actor John Travolta after his son died from a seizure at a family vacation home.

A woman has been arrested in the US on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the infant in an oven.

An 85-year-old Beverly Hills psychiatrist has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, America’s second-highest military honour, at the White House, more than six decades after he saved the life of a badly-wounded mission commander aboard a bomber crippled during a Second World War raid over occupied France.

A Catholic priest appeared in court in England today charged with indecent assault and facilitation of the rape of a 12-year-old girl.

Six coroners, three times the typical weekend staff, worked in shifts to identify the nine victims of a mass killing in California.

A suspect has been arrested in a series of rapes that have terrorised women in Southern California and Washington over six years, Los Angeles police said.

Bail has been refused to two cousins who are accused of being in possession of a Kalashnikov assault rifle at Cliona Park, in Moyross, Limerick on August 23.

Six of the eight men arrested after a police swoop on a house in Limerick have been refused bail.

An 18-year-old relative has been charged in Trinidad with the murder of a former BBC producer, her brother-in-law and her mother.