Two Wexford men who raped a Waterford mother at her home while restraining her with a rope around her neck have been jailed for 14 years by Mr Justice George Bermingham at the Central Criminal Court.

A forensic scientist has told a Central Criminal Court jury that DNA extracted from semen found in an alleged rape victim matched that of the Wexford man accused of the crime.

A Waterford mother who alleges that she was raped in her home by two Wexford men pointed out one of the accused to gardaí in an informal identification parade and said: "I thinks that's him but I am not sure."

A jury has heard that DNA evidence led to the arrest of two Wexford men accused of forcing their way into the home of a Waterford mother and taking turns to rape her as she was restrained by a rope around her neck.

A former Drogheda resident who crashed a stolen car while off his bipolar disorder medication has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A jury of 10 woman and two men has acquitted Donegal man accused of raping a woman who said she had earlier snorted cocaine while socialising in a Dublin city centre late-night drinking venue.

There was no forensic evidence that a Donegal man carried out an alleged rape in a Dublin bedsit on a girl who said she had earlier snorted cocaine, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Donegal man has been jailed for six years for attempting to rape a woman while she was sleeping after he had climbed up a drainpipe at her house and got into her bed.

A teenager who, aged 14, was caught storing over €14,000 of heroin in a torch in his mother’s house has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kerry man who attempted to rape a teenage girl he on a quiet road has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.