A cocaine addict who bit part of a man’s ear off after chasing him from a chip shop has been sentenced to two years in prison today at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A chronic heroin addict whose 15-month-old son was found with cuts, bruises and burns to his body while lying in a bedroom that had "evidence of drug use" has been given a suspended sentence.

A man who defrauded 12 potential tenants of almost €30,000 in an South Dublin apartment scam has been remanded on bail pending sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin mother has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she was raped by a man she had been dating after she had told him she didn't want the relationship to continue.

A Pakistani national who received oral sex from a 15-year-old boy on a city bus has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug courier who earned a weekly "wage" of €400 for moving drugs for criminals has been given a seven-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of cannabis valued €7m.

A man who smashed a pint glass into a Bulgarian barman's head in a County Wicklow pub has been given one more chance by Judge Frank O'Donnell to avoid jail.

A drug courier who earned a weekly "wage" of €400 for moving drugs for criminals has had his sentence for possession of cannabis valued €7m adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

A 22-year-old man who wielded a steak knife and large fork during an hour-long stand off with gardaí has being sentenced to two years and six months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Fingal market gardener caught with more than 10,000 images of child pornography mainly showing "very young children in very graphic acts" after Austrian police alerted gardaí will be sentenced shortly.

A chronic heroin addict whose 15-month-old son was found with cuts, bruises and burns to his body while lying in a bedroom that had "evidence of drug use" has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a taxi driver charged with sexually assaulting a female passenger on her way home from a company Christmas Party.

A psychiatric patient who stabbed a Temple Bar busker because voices told him the man was going to kill someone has been given a four-year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Cavan taxi driver has gone on trial charged with sexually assaulting a female passenger on her way home from a company Christmas Party three years ago.

A Clare man died from a fatal stab wound to the stomach that punctured a major blood vessel, the jury in the trial of his brother, accused of his murder, has heard.

The sister of two brothers, whose street fight ended with one fatally stabbing the other, has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that "one was as bad as the other".

A Dublin teenager who made a suicide pact with his co-accused has been given a four years suspended jail sentence for a drink and drugs-fuelled assault which left another teenager with permanent facial scars.

A "withdrawn and vulnerable" alcoholic who agreed to hold over €1m of cocaine and heroin in return for €500 has been jailed for six years by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Outstanding garda surveillance work led to a man being caught with €7m worth of cannabis resin that were stacked in crates in the back of a van outside Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 in the family sitting room, because he feared a vicious criminal, has been given five years in jail by Judge Frank O’Donnell at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A bench warrant has been issued for a Mayo resident who failed to appear for sentence in the case in which he harassed a single mother by sending her sexually explicit phone and text messages.

A Kerry teenager whose aggravated sexual assaults of two women within weeks included a threat to kill the second victim has today been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 and cocaine in the family sitting room has been granted compassionate bail by Judge Frank O’Donnell to spend Christmas with his widower father.

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.

A drug addict caught with €135,380 of cocaine whose father had pleaded for leniency for him has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 in the family sitting room has been remanded in custody for sentence later by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man described by gardaí as "the gentleman of the group" has been given an 18-month sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan for his role in the 'Love Ulster' parade riot in Dublin city centre last year.

A successful plasterer who turned to drug dealing to feed his cocaine addiction has been given a five-year sentence for possession of over €12,000 of cocaine by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two friends who had been involved in a heavy drinking session attacked a man after he confronted them because one of them smashed his girlfriend's car window with a golf club.

A man who drove a car into the reception doors at RTÉ studios, causing €14,000 damage, has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court and ordered to stay away from RTÉ employees.

A "very dangerous" teenager has been given a 13-year prison sentence by Judge Michael White for a litany of violent crimes including robbery, hijacking, assault and threatening to kill gardaí.

A Kildare care assistant has had her sentence for stealing €4,760 from an elderly woman adjourned by Judge Katherine Delahunt who said she was trying to blackmail the court by not making arrangements for her sons.

A "shopaholic" who defrauded her employer of almost €100,000 has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires, and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a year to continue treatment for her compulsive behaviour before being sentenced.

A former prostitute who robbed €100 from a man after agreeing to provide him with sexual services has been jailed for a year by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two members of a three-strong gang who lurked outside a bank until it closed and then tried to push and kick their way in have been jailed by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of a 38-year-old-father-of two accused of murder has heard there are "two verdicts open" to the jury; not guilty of murder or guilty of manslaughter, defence counsel said in his closing speech to the jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A teenager who broke into a pensioner’s home 15 minutes after his release on bail from a garda station has been jailed for three years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Corkman who was involved in a savage assault on two men in front of a 10-year-old girl while they were out fishing has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.