A man who raped and sexually abused an 11-year-old boy after “working his way” into the child's family home will be sentenced next month.

A man has received a suspended sentence for hitting someone with a chair because he “got a bad vibe” from the victim’s friend.

An off-duty garda has been praised by a judge for arming himself with a traffic cone and catching two robbers after witnessing a raid in a Dublin shop.

A GAA player has been acquitted of assaulting an opponent and breaking his nose during a Dublin league game.

A retired Garda superintendent said he had been concerned that a top RUC officer repeatedly used the same car to travel to the Republic in the months before he was killed in an IRA ambush.

A Dublin man who rang RTE’s Gerry Ryan Show seeking psychiatric help after he broke into a home to act out his fantasies about harming women will be sentenced later.

A motor parts distribution company has been fined €75,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today in relation to the death of a Polish employee who fell from a metal cage in a “reckless practice” the company condoned.