A man explained to a judge he was late for court because his washing machine broke down.

A man has been ordered by a judge to bring a bus time-table to court to prove he knows how to find his way there for his next case.

Republic of Ireland and Celtic striker Anthony Stokes, who is charged with attacking and injuring a man in a Dublin nightclub, is to be served with a book of evidence in two weeks.

Soccer star Anthony Stokes has been warned his alleged assault on an Elvis impersonator was too serious to be dealt with in the Dublin District Court.

Fresh charges have been brought against two former Anglo Irish Bank senior executives who are awaiting trial for Revenue offences.

A Libyan-born man who once featured on the UN al Qaeda “terror list” has offered to make tea for two officers from the Garda Special Detective Unit after he pleaded guilty to assaulting them.

A drugs squad Garda has been spared a criminal conviction for trespassing at a house in Dublin after he had an argument with a woman.

Gardaí arrested an 80-year-old man yesterday and charged him with indecently assaulting 14 children while serving as a Missionaries of Sacred Heart priest and he declared: “I am totally innocent of those charges.”

A man who had great hopes as a soccer player in his teens and once got a trial with Glasgow Celtic, hit the bottle when it didn’t work out and yesterday ended up being jailed for six months.

A man charged with the murder of his two sons will be served with the book of evidence next month after appearing at Harristown District Court yesterday.

A 26-year-old man charged with the murder of two pensioner brothers has been further remanded in custody.

Former millionaire property developer Kevin McGeever said he hopes Mayo finally win the All-Ireland football title after he was released on bail at Harristown District Court yesterday.

Last Sunday they were in their local church, full of excitement and energy as they helped their grandmother collect leaflets and tidy up; yesterday they were buried side by side in the graveyard outside as their mother Kathleen, other family, friends, and community looked on.

The father of the two young boys found dead in a car in Co Mayo earlier this week has appeared in court in Co Roscommon.

An arrest warrant has been issued for an angler who threatened to stone fisheries officers after being caught fishing illegally.

A pub owner who thanked gardaí for ejecting a group of late-drinking teachers from his premises has been fined €750 for breaching the licensing laws.

The Vintners Federation of Ireland has said it is monitoring a court case in Castlebar in which the bar at the Taoiseach’s golf club was run as a pub in exchange for an annual payment of €10,000.

Children are becoming the hidden victims of the recession, with the number of minors needing help for mental health problems surging 30% in two years.

There has been a 30% increase in the number of children seeking treatment for mental health issues in the last two years, experts said.

THE CASUAL ignorance of the remark was jaw-droppingly offensive; the so-called apology, if anything, even more damning — and the fact both were uttered by a judge was deeply worrying.

A 17-year-old girl, who has been in care since infancy, has been sentenced to two years' supervised probation for a vicious attack on two Spanish au-pairs in Dublin city-centre.

A judge has today criticised child protection services saying they “have lost the plot” after hearing that a young boy has been living “home alone” and “committing crime to get money for food”.

A nightclub, one of its directors and a manager are being prosecuted for breaking health and safety regulations following the death of a barman who was crushed in a goods lift at work.

A private prosecution brought against two officials at IBRC (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) for alleged deception has been adjourned, pending the outcome of a legal challenge.

A 34-year-old Romanian woman has been sentenced to three months in prison for operating a brothel in Galway city.

A detective garda who spent the day in the pub before crashing an unmarked garda car has been convicted of dangerous driving.

An IRA membership charge has been brought against a Limerick woman accused of murdering a father-of-two in west Dublin in November.

A top detective said “I'm f***ed, I'm f***ed” when an unmarked Garda car he was driving crashed on the M50 motorway after he had spent hours in a pub, a court has heard.

The publisher of the Irish Mail on Sunday has been found guilty of breaking consumer protection laws by publishing 26,000 Sunday Tribune look-alike editions.

The District Court has today found that the Irish Mail on Sunday did not deliberately mislead consumers by publishing an edition of the newspaper that looked like the defunct Sunday Tribune.

A Detective Garda has gone on trial accused of dangerous driving and unauthorised taking of an unmarked Garda car which was involved in a collision in Dublin in 2010.

A judge will give a verdict next month on whether The Irish Mail on Sunday broke consumer protection laws by publishing 26,000 Sunday Tribune lookalike editions.

The Irish Mail on Sunday's decision to print 26,000 Sunday Tribune look-alike editions was a “carefully executed plan” to deceive consumers, a judge was told today.

THE Irish Mail on Sunday asked shopkeepers to display a Sunday Tribune lookalike edition on empty spaces previously reserved for the defunct newspaper, a court has heard.

The Irish Mail on Sunday asked shopkeepers to display a Sunday Tribune look-alike edition on empty spaces previously reserved for the defunct newspaper, a court has heard.

The Irish Mail on Sunday has denied claims they tried to deceive readers into buying their paper by publishing a special edition with a fake Sunday Tribune masthead.

THE family of Daniel McAnaspie argued before the High Court yesterday that the care order for the 17 year old should be deemed to have come to an end when he died.

A JUDGE involved in the case of murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie yesterday said the teenager had encountered “evil at its most stark”.

DANIEL McAnaspie was no stranger to the courts in Dolphin House in Temple Bar — something which lent added poignancy to the words spoken by Judge Conal Gibbons yesterday.

A COURT has heard that a lifting of the in camera rule in the case of Daniel McAnaspie, the teenager killed earlier this year, would be in the public interest.

A teenage boy appeared in court today in connection with the stabbing of a garda in Westport in Co. Mayo, in the early hours of Sunday morning last.

Dozens of gardaí gathered at a bedside vigil today for their young colleague who was left fighting for life after being mown down by suspected car thieves.

A 14-year-old boy arrested for dangerous driving has been remanded in custody with his family’s consent for educational and psychological assessments to be carried out.

St Patrick's Day is the one day when people should stay indoors Judge Conal Gibbons recommended today in trial of a teenager, citing the new 'Simpsons' episode set in Ireland as an example.