A Meath mother who stole over €100,000 from the Supervalu where she worked as a manager has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

A Meath mother who stole more than €100,000 from the Supervalu where she worked as a manager has been remanded on bail pending sentence next March.

A barrister who head-butted a crèche director and broke her nose has been given a three-year, suspended sentence and told to “keep away” from his victim and any of her staff for 15 years.

A Dublin car dealer has been jailed for 13 years for possessing over €1.9 million worth of cannabis resin after judge said he was the operator in charge of the entire consignment.

A young man who has a previous conviction for manslaughter has been jailed for the violent hijacking of a taxi.

A man will be sentenced later after he threatened to kill a woman and put her in the boot of his car as she collected her son from school.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of threatening to kill a woman and put her in the boot of his car as she collected her son from school.

The former personal assistant of Adam Clayton has been jailed for seven years after she was found guilty of stealing nearly €3m from his bank accounts.

A jury in the trial of Adam Clayton’s personal assistant who is accused of stealing nearly €3 million from him will resume their deliberations tomorrow.

Adam Clayton has denied he asked his former personal assistant to buy things on her credit card to preserve the credit limit on his.

The former PA of Adam Clayton, who allegedly stole almost €3m from him, had a credit card limit nearly half as big her shared annual salary, a court has heard.

The former personal assistant of Adam Clayton accused of stealing nearly €3 million from him spent almost €1.5 million on her credit card over a four year period, a court has heard.

The former personal assistant of Adam Clayton accused of stealing nearly €3m from him owned up to 22 thoroughbred race horses with her former husband, a court has heard.

A former personal assistant and housekeeper to Adam Clayton has gone on trial for allegedly stealing almost €3 million from the U2 bass player.

A former bus driver described as an international drugs trafficker has been jailed for 13 years after he solicited undercover gardaí to act as drug mules.

A Yahoo UK Ltd legal intern has told a trial that she assisted with providing authorities with evidence of emails sent to and from two email addresses, one of which the State alleges is the accused.

A car dealer has been jailed for four years after he failed to pay over €220,000 Vat on secondhand vehicles.

A Swiss undercover agent involved in a drug trafficking investigation was forbidden to travel to Ireland because his anonymity and safety could not be guaranteed, a trial has heard.

Two men who fired bullets into a house to ‘intimidate, harass and terrify a family’ have been sentenced to 10 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three women armed with a baseball bat and a steak knife managed to fend off a drug addict robbing their pharmacy using a screwdriver, a court has heard.

A Dublin woman who attacked her ex-boyfriend leaving him with injuries to his scrotal area has been given a suspended sentence today.

THE prosecution in a murder trial has told the jury it can use evidence of motive, DNA and mobile phone use together to convict the defendant of murder.

THE former personal assistant of Adam Clayton will stand trial next year on 184 counts relating to the alleged embezzlement of millions of euro from the U2 bass guitarist.

A youth will be sentenced next week for attempting to intimidate a victim, who had part of his ear bitten off, to drop the charges.

A Meath horticultural expert who assisted a sophisticated cannabis growing operation has been sentenced to six years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man with an “unhealthy fascination” with police equipment was caught speeding an imitation garda car around the city centre while drunk, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A former pupil of a Clondalkin secondary school, who dressed up as the Batman character The Joker and set fire to the building, causing more than €1m worth of damage, has been given 240 hours community service in lieu of a two-year jail sentence.

A father-of-two has been given sentences totalling seven years with the final two suspended for possessing a shotgun and ammunition and later being caught holding heroin while on bail.

A Polish man who orally raped a woman working as an escort in Dublin city centre has received a 10-year sentence with the final three years suspended.

A young Dublin man has been jailed for eight years for possessing €137,000 of heroin and cocaine.

A “vulnerable” Dublin man who was been described as leading a “sheltered life” with his parents has been sentenced to seven years in prison with the last two suspended for possessing €1.3m of cannabis in a disused warehouse.

A father-of-two will be sentenced later for possessing a shotgun and ammunition which he claimed he had for clay-pigeon shooting.

A Polish man has received a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for smuggling 28,900 cigarettes worth over €9,000 into Ireland.

A brother and sister who were part of a gang of four caught in possession of €200,000 worth of heroin have been sentenced to seven years in prison, but with five of those suspended.

A young Drogheda man accused of murdering the father of the child he was babysitting was “very aggressive, swinging knives”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Kildare man and his friend who beat up a stranger and kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious, after "slagging" off his name have been sentenced to 18 months and two years respectively.

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teacher, described as a "determined paedophile", who indecently assaulted nine boys he taught at a Sligo primary school has been jailed for 12 years by Judge Michael White.