A Laois man who raped and sexually assaulted his stepdaughter over an eight-year period has received a 14-year prison sentence.

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.

Charges against a Galway man who pleaded guilty to raping his niece have been withdrawn after the girl later admitted she was lying.

A Mayo man who was acquitted of raping his ex-girlfriend has been sentenced to four years for falsely imprisoning and assaulting her.

A Limerick man has been sentenced to three years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for the sex assault of a woman after the Listowel Races.

A man acquitted of taking part in a gang rape of a woman in her Monaghan home has today been given a suspended sentence for assaulting her boyfriend.

The trial of two Lithuanian men charged with murdering a mother-of-two in Wexford last year has today heard that two apparently bloodstained golf clubs were found at the alleged murder scene.

A Polish man who passed 100 pellets of cocaine through his bowels has been jailed for seven years.

A 43-year-old man who barged into a house and threatened a woman and her three children with a firearm has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A County Cork chef accused of IRA membership didn’t want to wear a badge saying: “Jerry McCabe: Catering Officer, Garda Club,” to a catering conference, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The Special Criminal Court has fixed a date next month for the trial of a Cork chef arrested last year as part of a garda investigation into IRA money laundering.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal by two Dublin Sinn Féin members against their convictions for IRA membership.

All evidence has now been heard in the trial of five anti-war protesters accused of criminally damaging a US airplane at Shannon Airport.