There was a dramatic development in the case of a former school supervisor who had already pleaded guilty before a jury of defrauding the Department of Education of more than €24,000.

A former Marist brother and primary school teacher has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of 35 charges of sexually abusing four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago.

A man has told a jury that he suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his primary school teacher almost forty years ago.

A 45-year-old Tipperary man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl after driving her to a remote woodlands in County Offaly nine years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Barry White.

A 45-year-old Offaly man has been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in remote woodlands nine years ago.

The jury in the trial of an Offaly man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in remote woodlands nine years ago has been hearing medical evidence in the case.

A Co Offaly farmer faces jail after being convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on nine charges of sexually assaulting his now 29-year-old niece more than a decade ago.

A Co Offaly farmer faces jail after being convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on nine charges of sexually assaulting his now 29-year-old niece more than a decade ago.

The jury in the trial of an Offaly farmer charged with raping and sexually assaulting his niece over an eight year period has started its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court.

The first cousin of an alleged rape victim has said that as a 13-year-old she told her she was having sex with two men who were friends of her parents.

An Offaly teenager has told the Central Criminal Court that after a local farmer raped her in a field he asked her would they "stay for more or go on the beer".