The man serving a life sentence for murdering teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara has brought a High Court challenge against the 23-hour per day lock up regime he is subjected to at Wheatfield Prison.

A Dutch truck driver who received a 10-year sentence for aiding in the importation of €5.6m worth of heroin hidden in a consignment of flowers must wait to learn if his appeal against his conviction has been successful.

A 36-year-old man has failed in an appeal against his conviction for raping his boss' teenage daughter.

A father of two has been jailed after he was captured on CCTV footage taking €250,000 from an AIB employee who had been forced by 'tiger' kidnappers to steal the cash from his workplace.

The father of a Dublin man killed more than six years ago held his dying son in his arms just moments after he had been shot in the back with a shotgun, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

An Albanian man who pleaded guilty to disposing of two pieces of evidence in a Dublin murder case will be sentenced next week.

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

A father-of-two has been given sentences totalling seven years with the final two suspended for possessing a shotgun and ammunition and later being caught holding heroin while on bail.

A Clondalkin man who was caught walking through a park with almost €200,000 worth of heroin in his backpack has been jailed for eight years.

A man who was caught with €25,000 worth of heroin days after he was shot in the neck during a gangland murder has been given a seven and a half year sentence.

A former Meath county hurler will be sentenced later for trying to transport €55,000 worth of cannabis from Dublin to Kerry by train.

A man on trial for murdering a young Dublin woman confessed that he “did her” because she was planning to kill him and take his money, a garda witness told the Central Criminal Court.