A ‘lovesick’ east Clare man ‘dog-napped’ a little terrier called Red as part of a campaign of harassment that made a single mother’s life hell, a court has heard.

Latest: A forensic scientist has told a murder trial that the deceased's blood was found throughout a house and there was evidence that a clean-up had taken place.

A man on trial accused of murdering a fellow Cork Prison inmate asked a witness not to go back to his cell because he was “fearful” the deceased “would do something to him”, a jury has heard.

An innocent mother-of-three has been awarded almost €5,000 after Gardaí smashed in her doorway during a raid which proved fruitless.

Two men were “in fear of their lives” as they ran away from men wielding a machete and hockey stick in the school yard of a primary school, a court has heard.

A judge said that two men behaved outrageously when intimidating a female garda by burning out her private car.

A Dublin man charged with sending a pig’s head to the home of a garda yesterday pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence.

A mother repeatedly stabbed her friend 22 times with a homemade “shiv” in a vicious and horrific attack in an Ennis playground earlier this year.

A Dublin couple who were given a wholly suspended sentence for storing over half a million euro worth of cannabis in their home must wait to learn if their sentence will be increased.

Limerick gangland figure Ger Dundon has failed in appeal against his five-year sentence for violent disorder.

A man charged in connection with sending a pig’s head to the home of a garda has been allowed leave the country to go on a Mediterranean sun holiday.

A garda and former dual GAA player has been awarded €94,000 damages at a Garda compensation hearing in the High Court.

Lawyers for a Dublin man who was jailed for five years for IRA membership were not notified of parts of the belief evidence of a garda Chief Superintendant that helped convict him, the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.

A judge has asked legal teams to “get their heads together” to allow one of Ireland’s most serious alleged dangerous driving cases to go ahead.

A judge has ordered that a psychological report be prepared on a 57-year-old Tipperary man who pleaded guilty to the attempted coercion of the former president of Muintir na Tíre, Martin Quinn.

The son of a man who was convicted but later cleared of the 1998 Omagh bombing has today been granted bail pending an appeal against his conviction for explosives offences.

Notorious armed robber Frank Ward, who received two life sentences for the shooting of publican Charlie Chawke during a robbery, has succeeded in having his sentence reduced to one of 20 years on appeal.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement on legal issues in the trial of a Monaghan man charged with having explosives in his garage.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against the undue leniency of an eight-year sentence handed down to a Dublin man who viciously raped and threatened to kill a woman he dragged from a busy public road.

A Kerry man who raped his former girlfriend and threatened to kill her during a prolonged attack involving “violence of the most gratuitous nature” has failed in an appeal against his 10-year sentence.

A man described as a “sadistic monster” for subjecting his elderly parents to a five-month campaign of “excessive cruelty, brutality and obscenity of every kind” has failed in an appeal against his 15-year sentence.

A DISABLED woman blind in one eye lives in fear that a woman and her two accomplices will come back and kill her after carrying out an aggravated burglary at her home.

A notorious rapist has failed in an appeal against his conviction for the rape of an 85-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease but has succeeded in having the last two years of his 21-year sentence suspended.

A father convicted 11 years ago of sexually abusing his children has been given permission to go before an appeals court after the children made statements that their mother put them up to the allegations.

State lawyers acting against convicted criminal John Gilligan have told the High Court that inmates who lose prison privileges are not being subjected to a criminal penalty.

Garda files relating to two key witnesses in Catherine Nevin’s trial for the murder of her husband were ordered to be disclosured by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal adjourned its decision today on a bid by a Dublin criminal to take his case to the Supreme Court on a “point of exceptional public importance”.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the sentence imposed on a pregnant Sligo woman for perverting the course of justice.

A popular Swiss student was strangled to death just two days after she arrived in Ireland to learn English, a court heard today.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a West African man wanted in the Netherlands for allegedly trafficking children from Africa to Europe where they are used as prostitutes.

The High Court has refused an application by Belgium to extradite an Irish Aviation broker wanted in connection with the seizure of heroin valued at €10m because the man is facing similar charges in Ireland in connection with the same event.

A 24-year-old Limerick man charged in connection with a shooting outside a house where a christening party was taking place, has been described in court as an "evil, violent criminal" whom gardaí regard as a "serious threat".

THE family of a young man found hanging in a garda cell told a coroner’s court they had been “ignored” by the Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice in their attempts to find out details of his death.

Members of two Limerick families embroiled in a three year long dispute buried the hatchet today when they shook hands outside Limerick Circuit Courthouse.

A 19-year-old Limerick man had both his eyeballs lacerated and was blinded for life after he was assualted with a hurley, a court heard today.

A Limerick father-of-five, who was trying to protect his family, shot three men outside his home killing one of them, a court heard earlier today.

The Special Criminal Court today adjourned an application by the State to