Former “singing priest” Tony Walsh, aged 62, faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison for raping a boy with a crucifix, a court has heard.

An 85-year-old man was conned into handing over €17,500 to a Killarney building contractor and yesterday the builder pleaded guilty to a theft charge arising out of the offence.

‘Quartermaster’ for international drug gang had €380,000 in cash distributed around his house

A woman has told a jury that after a Corkman raped her multiple times in her home he asked her if she was going to call the gardaí on him.

The Court of Appeal has set aside a man’s 12-year prison sentence for possession of drugs worth over €4m in a case that raised an "important question" regarding construction of the Misuse of Drugs Act, as amended.

A stepdad accused of sexual assault said his ex-partner and others in her family had put his stepdaughter up to making the allegations in order to help her mother in a custody battle over other children.

A 21-year-old man who brought three teenagers for a weekend away indecently assaulted one of them in what was set up as a series of dares after the 14-year-old boy lost a game of cards.

A mother-of-four has failed in her appeal against her conviction and 10-year sentence for killing an English new age traveller and submerging his body in a slurry pit.

A man has told a jury that he was told by Eamonn Dunne that if he didn’t cut open a cash-in-transit van with a consaw he would be “on top of Marlo”.

The trial of a man for an attempted raid on a cash-in-transit van has said heard evidence from a Garda Superintendent that the accused “played a role” in the gang that had planned it.

A former taxi driver who was caught through a garda intelligence operation with almost €4.2m worth of cannabis resin has been jailed for 12 years for this and another drug offence.

THE jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering a man nicknamed Gold-tooth whose body was found weeks later in a slurry pit at the back of a farmhouse will continue their deliberations today.

GARY “Gold-tooth” Bull made a prophesy hours before his death that he would be killed, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork was told yesterday.

A WOMAN on trial for murdering a man known as “Gold-tooth” allegedly told the victim’s ex-partner she smashed his head in with a mallet, claiming she did it for her.

A former Bray Wanderers footballer who was found in possession of almost half a million euro worth of cocaine and heroin at his family home has had his sentencing adjourned until next week.

A drugs mule who attempted to smuggle over €50,000 worth of herbal cannabis into Ireland from Brussels is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next month.

THE IRA was almost certainly behind the highly organised robbery of £26.5 million from Northern Bank and Ted Cunningham was used by the IRA to launder at least £3m of it, it was claimed yesterday as the 60-year-old was jailed for 10 years.

A financial adviser was jailed for 10 years today for laundering cash from the notorious Northern Bank robbery.

THE former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) was described as the elephant in the room during the trial of Ted Cunningham.

THE trial of Ted Cunningham on charges of money-laundering cash from the Northern Bank robbery is coming to an end and the jury will retire later today to consider their verdict.

The trial of Ted Cunningham from Farran, County Cork, on charges of money-laundering cash from the Northern Bank robbery is coming to an end and the jury will retire tomorrow to consider their verdict.

TED CUNNINGHAM’S counsel asked yesterday if the prosecution was suggesting that Phil Flynn was a notorious scumbag and that by association, Cunningham was a money-launderer.

The defence lawyer of a Cork man being tried on money-laundering charges today asked if the prosecution was suggesting that businessman Phil Flynn was a "notorious scumbag", and that by association the defendant was a money-launderer.

The Cork man charged with laundering more than £3m (€3.2m) for from the Northern Bank robbery is telling lies or else there is a conspiracy of lies by a high-ranking team of garda investigators, a court heard today.

The Cork man accused of money-laundering gave direct evidence from the witness box today for the first time in his 34-day trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

THE man accused of laundering over £3 million from the Northern Bank robbery claimed that the gardaí wanted him to “nail” Phil Flynn, the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland), and that if he didn’t they would turn his family into the McBreartys of Donegal.

The man accused of laundering over £3m from the Northern Bank robbery claimed today that the gardaí wanted him to "nail" Phil Flynn – former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and that if didn’t they would turn his family into the McBreartys of Donegal.

The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

THE Corkman on trial for money-laundering was in fear of the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) — Phil Flynn — it was claimed yesterday by the detective in charge of the investigation.

The Cork man on trial for money-laundering was in fear of the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) – Phil Flynn – it was claimed today by the detective in charge of the investigation.

The Cork man on trial for money-laundering declared to detectives during an off-camera interview in a garda station: “Phil Flynn is the boss behind everything.”

A DETECTIVE searching the home of a man accused of money laundering believed the accused was part of an IRA gang that included another man caught at a railway station with a large amount of euro cash in a Daz washing powder box.

A Dublin man who killed a stranger with garden shears because he thought he was the devil has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.

A CIRCUIT court judge described a planning dispute between two brothers as “one of the more upsetting cases” he has ever had to deal with.

The jury at the murder trial in Cork are expected to retire to consider their verdict tomorrow as the two-week trial draws to a close.

The jury at the murder trial in Cork were shown a video today of the accused man telling gardaí that he stabbed Patrick Walsh, punched him twice and then stabbed him again.

A Dublin man accused of murder "lost control of himself" when provoked by comments his father made about sexually abusing his sisters, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.