A 52-year-old man who systematically sexually abused his young son for three years has been given a 14-year sentence by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court.

A YOUNG man who suffered systematic rape and sexual abuse by his father has asked the Central Criminal Court to impose a life sentence on his tormentor.

A young man who was systematically sexually abused and raped by his father for three years has told the Central Criminal Court that the man gave him a life sentence and he thinks his father should receive the same.

A Central Criminal Court judge has criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for delaying the progress of a trial by failing to anticipate an issue that arose with a witness in the case.

A Donegal man has been convicted of anally raping a 15-year-old girl and having sex with the same teenager two years ago.

A 25-year-old Tralee man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of a homeless father-of-four by stamping on his head with his full body weight.

Donegal farmer who appeared to be asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road before a fatal road crash in Co Louth in which his passenger died has been jailed for seven and a half years.

The trial of a Donegal man accused of killing his friend and seriously injuring another motorist in a dangerous driving incident in Co Louth has reached its concluding stages.

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Co Louth in which a Donegal man was killed and another seriously injured have said the driver appeared to be sleeping as he overtook other cars.

A son of a former Sinn Féin election candidate who shot at three uniformed gardaí has been jailed for five years.

A 46-year-old electrician has been found not guilty of withholding information about the murder of a victim of a bloody Limerick feud.

A 31-year-old Cork man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl has been jailed for 12 months by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Corkman who was left in a coma after an attack and died nine months later was in a "deeply comatose" state, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man who confessed to cutting the throat of an older man in Inchicore four years ago was subjected to a horrific sexual assault in a field in Dublin as a teenager, a murder trial jury has heard.

A 50-year-old man who stabbed an Aids patient to death in St James’s Hospital has told a murder trial jury he lost his temper after warning the man to stay away from young boys.

An arson attack on a shopping centre that caused over €1m worth of damage to six outlets resulted in the culprit who once worked in the centre being jailed for four years today.

The leader of an active crime gang in Cork city was jailed for eight years today for the armed robbery of a post office in Farran, County Cork, where he said he expected to find the Crown jewels but ended up with very little.