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 Cork man has been acquitted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of raping a woman as she slept after a night out.

A Cork man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping a drunk woman at a house party as her boyfriend slept beside her.

Gardaí, who were repeatedly stabbed after foiling a gang trying to rob captives they were holding in a north city suburb, throught they were going to be killed by a balaclava-masked man wielding a knife, a court has heard today.

The man accused of raping a Cork woman in her home town was picked out by her in an identification parade involving 10 other men, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Central Criminal Court jury was told a man accused of raping a Cork woman in her home town threatened gardai with a slash hook when they tried to arrest him at a caravan in Tipperary.

A man accused of possession heroin and 'ecstasy' worth €3.5m has told a jury that gardai fabricated interviews where he allegedly said he was to collect the drugs.

Two woman have denied that they falsely imprisoned and assaulted a baby sitter whom they accused of stealing £1,200 cash which had gone missing.