The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the seven-year prison term imposed on a Limerick man who was was caught in possession with almost €500,000 worth of drugs and guns, following an appeal from the DPP that the sentence was unduly lenient.

A Waterford man accused of INLA membership illegally took a mobile phone into a cell while in garda custody, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A female garda said she feared for her life and those of her colleagues when a raider shot at their patrol car windscreen following a pursuit from the scene of the robbery and shooting of publican Charlie Chawke.

The trial of five antiwar protesters accused of criminal damage of a United States Navy plane at Shannon Airport has collapsed following a suggestion by the defence that the trial judge had attended the inauguration of George W Bush as US president.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard that the State’s main witness has allegedly been given "complete immunity" from prosecution for possession of drugs.

The driver of a BMW car in which a 25-year-old man was shot in has denied accusations that he "deliberately drove him" to Cloverhill prison last year, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Five antiwar protesters charged with damaging a United States of America aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2003 were carrying a large pickaxe and several hammers with antiwar slogans inscribed on them, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

SENIOR clergymen and 172 lawyers yesterday called for peaceful protest during US President George W Bush’s visit next weekend.

A man whose car racing with another man on the M50 led to the death of three men, including a priest, has been further remanded on bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on July 7.

The vice president of Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) and the organisation's PRO in Limerick denied at the Special Criminal Court today that they were members of the IRA or any paramilitary organisation.

The prosecution today closed its case in Special Criminal Court on the 34th day of the trial of seven men suspected of membership of the Continuity IRA.

A detective garda who took part in a raid on a house in Limerick where a suspected Continuity IRA was taking place, today denied that gardai "hassled" members of Republican Sinn Fein.

A Garda Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court today that 27 uniformed and plain clothed gardai took part in a swoop on a house in Limerick city where gardaí believed a meeting of the Continuity IRA was taking place.

A suspected member of the IRA, arrested in the biggest single arrest operation against dissident republicans in recent history, was today placed on curfew for allegedly breaching strict bail conditions.

A Limerick solicitor advised a man accused of murder to answer "I can't remember" to questions put to him by gardai investigating a fatal stabbing, a jury has heard.

There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.