A judge has jailed a door-to-door broadband salesman for seven months for carrying out a sexual assault on a disabled woman in her 50s in her own home.

A wife whose face was beaten ‘black, blue and purple’ by her husband has told a court “I know now I have no ‘boss’ or no one beating me or torturing me for my money”.

An off-duty Domino’s Pizza delivery man broke both his wrists when he fell off a hospital roof as he tried to evade capture by gardaí.

The High Court has set bail terms for two former US servicemen charged over an alleged security breach at Shannon airport on St Patrick’s Day.

A Shannon mother is back behind bars and will miss her son’s First Holy Communion tomorrow after being caught stealing kids clothes from Dunnes Stores two days before the celebration.

A 15-year-old Co. Clare schoolgirl has left school and her home to get married to a "young lad" in the UK, a court heard today.

A bus driver bringing home Irish rugby fans got into a late night ruck over parking with a taxi driver and punched the man 10 to 15 times in the face and stomach.

A judge jailed a grandmother for brothel keeping and dismissed her story that she returned to the prostitution business to bankroll her husband’s credit card spending spree as being “in the realms of Walter Mitty”.

A judge said “God help Ireland” after hearing that the Department of Justice has not made any moves to deport a Brazilian teenager living here illegally.

A Brazilian-born “madam” drove away from court in a 161 L-registered €25,000 crossover 4x4 after pleading guilty to brothel keeping in Ennis and Limerick.

A judge yesterday warned two warring sisters that if they breach their sworn undertakings, he will pack them off in a windowless white wagon “and ye can scream at each other to your little hearts’ content”.

A judge said yesterday that the behaviour of a 50-year-old man who followed a frightened teacher for 16km to her home at night in a “road rage” incident was “absolutely and utterly outrageous”.

A nephew told his uncle after headbutting him in the face in a lunch-time assault at an Ennis retail outlet that “I’ve been dying to do that for a long time”.

A deaf victim of DoneDeal fraudster Patrick Matthews has been left “very hurt and angry” by his former flatmate’s deception.

A judge has said that a West Clare farmer who told another farmer in a “foul-mouthed rant” that he would fuck him under a tractor after a run-in on a country road “seems to be at this all the time”.

The frustrated parents of a school-shy teen are dropping the 14-year-old girl off at school — but she is simply walking in one door and out the other.

A judge yesterday warned a 14-year-old schoolgirl that if she does not go to school her parents will be sent to jail.

A judge yesterday told the parents of a school-shy teenager that they can bring their small bags and toothbrushes home with them.

A judge yesterday told the parents of a 14-year-old school-shy girl to bring her their overnight bags to court on Friday as he threatened both of them with imprisonment.

A district court judge yesterday ruled that Go Safe employees don’t have the required authority to help prosecute speeding cases in the district court.

The State has been accused of “dodging the bullet” in not releasing a copy of the €80m Garda contract with the Go Safe consortium to the court.

A judge has fined a farmer €600 for animal cruelty after a garda found a dying cow lying down and shaking and moaning uncontrollably in the farmer’s yard.

A fresh bail application is to be made next Monday for a 32-year-old man charged in connection with an alleged meat cleaver assault that left the victim with a 20-stitch laceration to the head.

Offender put on kick boxing course to challenge drug barons

Red tape, over a missing ‘o’ in the name O’Donovan, has led a judge to describe the speeding prosecution system as “totally daft, unreal and unbearable”.

A separated Clare man who has no access to the television in his own home has emerged victorious in his TV licence battle with An Post — but he won’t be telling his ex-wife.

Serious questions have been raised over the validity of speeding prosecutions brought to court following the use of Go Safe vans after a judge threw out another 17 cases yesterday.

It’s ‘all picture, no sound’ for one Co Clare man who shares his home with his separated wife but has no access to the house TV.

Almost 100 motorists accused of speeding escaped any sanction after a judge dismissed all Go Safe cases against them yesterday.

A consultant psychiatrist told a court yesterday that a woman was not responsible for her actions when she assaulted a Filipino nurse in a hospital carpark.

A 33-year-old Afghan who fought the Taliban and is now on hunger strike yesterday appeared in court charged with causing criminal damage at a direct provision centre in Co Limerick.

A judge said that a man driving 178km/h on a motorway must have been driving an "airborne vehicle".

A 41-year-old former student of humanities told a dog warden he would shoot him in the leg after his dog had been seized, a court has heard.

A GAA spectator was yesterday returned for trial concerning an alleged on-pitch assault that resulted in a footballer losing three teeth and being rendered unconscious.

A judge has described as vile, nasty, and despicable a 20-year-old Cork woman taking advantage of the charity shown to her by an elderly nun.

A judge said yesterday that nobody here can be proud of the life Josef Pavelka had in Ireland, despite the man’s self-inflicted problems.

The two homeless men who were living in public toilets in Ennis now have “celebrity status” in the town with people wanting to have their photo taken with them.

A 14-year-old boy yesterday appeared in court charged with producing a machete during the course of an alleged violent disturbance at a Co Clare junior school earlier this year.