A Dublin father-of-five with a history of drink driving has been given a three-year sentence for knocking down a pedestrian leaving him with crushed legs.

A crack cocaine addict who ambushed a foreign national on the street and sexually assaulted her after telling her she should not be in the country has been given a three-year sentenc

A man who received an award for volunteering in his community has been given a four-year sentence for sexually abusing three young boys.

Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, has had his extradition case adjourned for more than a month by the High Court.

A man who entered a hospital armed with a knife and threatened to “torture, kill and have sex with” a doctor giving him a psychiatric assessment has received a partially suspended seven-year sentence.

A reformed heroin addict who attacked the mother of his child with a hammer leaving her with a wound that needed nine stitches has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

Two Ballyfermot men who transported over €500,000 of cannabis resin after falling into debt with criminals because of their cocaine habits have been sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A gambling addict and former sports coach who conned rent from foreign students by pretending to let out his apartment has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 75-year-old man who raped his then-nine-year-old granddaughter in a Wexford town in 1994 has been jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A former City of London policeman has been found not guilty by reason of insanity on all charges arising out of his bus rampage which led to the death of 62-year-old Ms Maire Buckley two years ago.

The former policeman whose bus rampage caused the death of a 62-year-old mother was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was being pursued by several police forces and intelligence services.

A former bus driver has admitted that a 62-year-old mother died of multiple injuries as a result of a collision involving her car and a bus he took without authority on a rampage through west Dublin two years ago.

A former bus driver has gone on trial for causing the death of a 62-year-old mother when he rampaged through west Dublin in a private bus he took without authority from his employer's depot two years ago.

A building company has been fined €50,000 after a woman’s car was crushed by a load of steel mesh grids at a construction site just minutes after she had dropped a number of children at a nearby school.

A "hardworking family man" and cocaine addict who had his three-year-old son in the car with him when caught with a cache of the drug valued over €564,000 has been jailed for ten years by Judge Patricia Ryan.

A 'crac' cocaine and heroin addict who went on a crime spree in which he held up shops and threatened staff with weapons has been sentenced to seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father of five who sexually abused his eldest daughter more than 24 years ago has been sentenced to six years in jail by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial has been addressed by counsel for the prosecution and the defence on day-12 of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.