A drama teacher who raped a student when she was around seven years old has been jailed for 10 years.

Lawyers for the State have told the Court of Appeal that 1,400 drink-driving prosecutions are being held up by a ruling that breathalyser test statments were not valid if printed in the English language only.

A man jailed for life for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin has moved to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

A Dublin man has gone on trial charged with the murder of his uncle Edward O’Connor in Finglas, Dublin 18 months ago.

An 80-year-old former principal has appealed his conviction for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in Moyasta National School, west Clare, over three decades.

Lawyers for the State have been told to prepare a “substantive response” in the lead-up to Brian Meehan’s bid to have his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

A Wicklow man has had his six year prison sentence for violently assaulting a father in his home reduced to four by the Court of Appeal.

In the first prosecution for criminal damage to a social media account, a Donegal man has avoided a jail term for criminal damage to his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook page after he admitted posting an offensive status update on it.

An appeal by a Co Clare woman against her conviction for soliciting a hit man to kill her partner and his two sons in 2006, opened at the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

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A Dublin man appealing against his conviction and life sentence for the rape of his then partner's teenage daughter was found guilty after he received a fair trial, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard yesterday.

The Court of Criminal appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a Limerick man against the conviction and 10-year jail sentence he revived for threatening to kill a young barman who refused to allow his 14-year-old sister into a pub.

A MAN has begun his appeal against his conviction for the murder of a schoolgirl on a remote beach near Carraroe, Co Galway, in December 1998.

A garda detective has denied that a man on trial for the murder of Limerick man, Eddie Ryan Snr, was offered a place on the Witness Protection Programme if he turned state witness.

A father accused of the murder of his 20-month-old son was suffering from an abnormality of the mind at the time he took his son by the feet and swung his head against a kitchen wall, a consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court.