Closing speeches are continuing in the trial of Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke who denies murdering his love rival Bobby Ryan.

Mary Lowry visited a psychic to see if would help when her boyfriend Bobby "Mr Moonlight" Ryan disappeared, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Mary Lowry said she did not make the recording and did not give anyone permission to record the conversation.

Patrick Quirke told a social worker that Mary Lowry was leaving her three children unsupervised for long periods at weekends and had "lost the run of herself" after becoming fixated on a new relationship, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Cavan man has pleaded guilty before the non-jury Special Criminal Court this morning to helping an unlawful organisation murder dissident republican Peter Butterly.

Ornua is celebrating success after winning 14 awards (3 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze for cheese and 1 bronze award for salted butter) at the Global Cheese Awards in Frome, Somerset.

A man accused of murdering the manager of the Sunset House pub in Dublin last year is "inextricably linked" to the shooting, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

The judge in the trial of a retired surgeon accused of groping young male patients has told the jury that it would be dangerous to convict on the “uncorroborated evidence” of any of the complainants.

A retired surgeon has gone on trial accused of indecently assaulting six teenage boys while he was treating them as patients.

DNA matching a murder accused was identified on a glove and wig found alongside the sub-machine gun alleged to have been used in an attack that left a 36-year-old dead, a trial heard today.

A jury has seen CCTV footage of the moment a man was shot 18 times with a sub-machine gun in the car park of a pigeon racing club.

The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick yesterday became the longest running criminal trial in the history of the State.

An auditor for Anglo Irish Bank has told a trial that he misled a previous trial about a statement he gave to gardaí.

An English priest who molested a 12-year-old boy after bringing the child and his brother on holiday to Ireland over 40 years ago has been jailed for nine months.

Gardaí have never investigated a State official’s destruction of documents related to the investigation of alleged crimes by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick, a trial has heard.

Investigators into alleged crimes by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick used “unlawful" practices when taking witness statements, his trial has heard.

The lead investigator into allegations of financial crimes by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has accepted that aspects of his investigation were “colossally prejudiced”.

Warrants obtained by gardaí to search banking premises for evidence during investigations into events at Anglo Irish Bank in 2008 were unlawful and unconstitutional, a jury has heard.

A Dublin man has been jailed for his role in the movement of €778,000 worth of cannabis imported from Spain and hidden under scented candles.

A Louth man who raped a 15-year-old family friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

A man hit with a statutory “double whammy”, according to his lawyers, has had his 17-year prison term reduced to 14 by the Court of Appeal “in the interests of justice”.

A jury took an hour and 40 minutes to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of a truck driver charged with careless driving causing the death of a two-year-old girl.

A mother said she would not forget a single detail of the day that her two-year-old daughter died after a road traffic collision involving a 40ft articulated truck, writes Claire Quinn.

A Hungarian national has been found guilty of murdering a 20-year-old Kildare man with a baseball bat.

A man was “smacked at the back of his head” by a man with a baseball bat after he hit a parked van “a thump”, a murder trial jury has heard.

A man who was convicted for abusing his neighbour’s two daughters has been jailed for eight years for the rape and sexual abuse of the same neighbour’s son.

The High Court will rule today on former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick’s application to permanently prevent his trial before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court from proceeding.

Seán FitzPatrick has launched a High Court action aimed at permanently preventing his trial before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court from going ahead.

A judge has ruled that Seán FitzPatrick can get a fair trial despite eight years’ publicity leaving him with a “negative” reputation.

The delayed release of the banking inquiry’s final report until next year has prompted fears that any further setbacks could collapse the probe if an early general election is called.

The 55-day-long trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly has collapsed at the Special Criminal Court, after a failure in evidence disclosure.

The 55-day-long trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly has collapsed at the Special Criminal Court after a failure in evidence disclosure.

The Special Criminal Court has been asked to direct a finding of not guilty in the case of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly.

A man who was raped and sexually assaulted along with his teenage brother has pleaded guilty to molesting his niece.

A Polish man must await the outcome of his appeal against the five life sentences imposed on him for the rape and sexual assault of a woman.

Two Dublin friends have avoided going to jail after they admitted taking part in a pub brawl which ended in a man losing his eye.

The man convicted of causing the death of a boy 13 years ago by setting a children’s makeshift den on fire yesterday received a 15-year prison sentence.

A 35-year-old Mayo man has been acquitted of murdering his father two years ago.

A 35-year-old Mayo man has been acquitted of murdering his elderly father two years ago.

A teenager said that finding out that his own father had raped his sisters may have caused him to begin sexually abusing his younger niece, a court has heard.

A Dublin man accused of killing a 12-year old boy in a fire told his neighbour not to tell gardaí he was there, a court has heard.

A struck-off solicitor has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend almost €9m for land now worth €30,000.

A Dublin father-of-two who was caught with blue dye on his hands and clothes after he robbed over €30,000 from a cash-in-transit worker has been jailed for two years.