A married Corkman who wrongly labelled his then 14-year-old victim as "a rent boy" has been jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for anally raping the boy.

A man on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of a serious assault in which the victim lost his only eye denied to gardaí that he had caused the damage.

A man has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that another man twisted a broken bottle into his one good eye, leaving him totally blind.

A Dublin man has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of his father at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man accused of murder told Gardaí he "just lost the head" when his father admitted sexually abusing his older sisters, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Dublin man who denies the murder of his father at their home in December 2001 claims he "blanked out after the first few stabs" in a statement to gardaí.

A Dublin man accused of murdering his father allegedly told gardaí he “just wanted to hurt him as he raped my sister”, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court heard today.