A young man who was convicted of manslaughter was taken from his drug addicted mother as a baby and suffered the death of both his foster parents as a child, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 54-year-old GP has brought a High Court challenge aimed at halting his prosecution on charges that he sexually assaulted one woman and indecently assaulted two others.

A Dublin father has denied physically or sexually abusing his children and said they their family home “could not have been happier” before his children were taken into care.

The foster mother of two girls who were allegedly neglected by their father has told a jury that when they arrived at her house they were filthy, wearing soiled underpants and the youngest child was “walking alive” with lice.

A 10-year-old girl has alleged that her father, who is accused of cruelty to his five children, raped her when she was eight and her younger brother has alleged that the man hit him with a belt even when he was good.

A woman has described how she was allegedly sexually abused as a young child by her father in their south Dublin city home.

A debt-ridden truck driver who ended up storing a shotgun and cocaine valued at over a €250,000 for several months after taking a loan from a criminal gang has been given a seven-year sentence.

A man on trial for conspiracy to possess drugs has claimed he dropped a car, in which a large amount of drugs was later found, off at a west Dublin car park as a favour for “Mr Martin Hyland”.

An appeal brought by a Turkish barber against the murder conviction he received for stabbing his partner to death in front of their 21-month-old son has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A MESSAGE on a Bebo social networking site to 'Get the right result' could have brought about the collapse of the trial.

SOME "idiot" put diesel instead of petrol into the powerful engines on the rib boat found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, a jury was told.

An Eritrean national who was described as "someone who is quiet dangerous" is making it impossible for a judge to sentence him on rape charges in the Central Criminal Court because he is either violent, drunk or in a state of undress.

An Eritrean national facing sentence for rape had to be carried screaming and kicking by prison officers across the Round Hall of the Four Courts to a cell after he was deemed too dangerous to be kept in court.

A 26-year-old man who raped a Waterford student while she walked home alone from a disco last November has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man who stabbed his brother to death during a row at their family home has told Mr Justice Barry White he will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life.

A Cork man pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his brother after stabbing him six times in the chest and leg during a row at their family home.

The father of a Cork man accused of stabbing his brother said the accused had a mad glare in his eye at the time of the killing and it seemed like he was on "something heavy".

The closing stages have been reached in the trial of a Lithuanian national charged with raping an Eastern European woman in a Cork suburban house two years ago.

The closing astages have been reached in the trial of a Lithuanian national charged with raping an Eastern European woman in a Cork suburban house two years ago.

A doctor has told the Central Criminal Court today that he found bruising and slight scratching on the body of an Eastern European woman who claims she was raped by a Lithuanian national in a Cork suburban house.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that a Lithuanian national who appeared to be "in a drunken stupor" told gardaí sent to Cork city suburban house: "I didn't rape anyone".

An eastern European woman who claims she was raped by a Lithuanian national in Cork has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that he said he did it because he liked to see her "scream and struggle".

The sister of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death by her husband with a lump hammer has said that during an argument with the accused, he said he was going to kill her and drink her blood.

The jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork was today invited to conclude that Wayne O’Donoghue was guilty of the murder of Robert Holohan.

The Special Criminal Court today heard closing submissions for the defence in the trial of two men accused of having a massive haul of explosives near the border last year.

Closing submissions are expected to conclude at the Special Criminal Court next week in the trial of two men accused of having a massive haul of explosives near the border last year.

A widowed mother of seven who saw her son stabbed to death in her hallway has alleged she was threatened by his two assailants after she ran after them, a jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

The barrister accused of intimidating a witness in a trial was cleared of the charge late this afternoon when a jury reached a unanimous verdict of not guilty in the case against him.

The chief witness in the trial of five men accused of murder has alleged that four men were to be murdered on the night Kieran Keane was shot dead and he himself was left fighting for his life.

The trial of a Limerick man for the murder of Eddie Ryan Snr ended dramatically today when the accused pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

There could be a "perfectly innocent explanation" for the presence of fingerprints of a man accused of double murder on the glasses of one of the victims, a defence lawyer has told a jury.

A housemate of a man accused of the double murder of a student couple has identified the accused in video footage outside the apartment on the date the State alleges the couple were murdered.

One of two men picked out at an identity parade is the man accused of the double murder of two Chinese students in an apartment in Dublin, a jury has heard.

The trial of a radio personality accused of sexually molesting four young girls has reached its concluding stages after 14-days hearing at the Central Criminal Court.

An adopted son of a radio personality accused of sexually molesting four young girls told a Central Criminal Court jury he made false allegations of sexual abuse against the accused.

The radio personality accused of sexually abusing four young girls told a Central Criminal Court jury he never interfered with any of the complainants.

The trial of a Corkman accused of raping a 12-year-old girl has reached its concluding stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A Corkman accused of raping a 12-year-old girl has said she kissed him when he fell on her bed accidentally and she, her family, and gardaí have framed him with allegations of rape.

Gardai investigating allegations of rape made by a Cork woman have denied threatening to handcuff and drag the accused to the garda station if he did not come voluntarily.

The fatal stabbing of a Cork man was "a tragedy of enormous consequences", a murder trial jury heard today.

A jury is expected to retire to reach a verdict tomorrow on the 25th day of the trial of a Corkman accused of the rape and murder of Rachel Kiely in a park in Ballincollig in October 2000.

The behaviour of a youth directly after the rape and murder of a 22-year-old Cork woman was not in keeping with guilt, a defence lawyer has told a jury.

A British forensics expert has suggested that the manner in which forensic evidence in a rape and murder trial was collected prior to testing in the State Forensic Science Laboratory could have left it open to tampering or contamination.

A 16-year-old youth arrested in connection with the murder of a 22 year-old woman in a park in County Cork in 2000 told gardai he could not help their investigation and had nothing to do with the murder.