A man who began sexually abusing his step-daughter before her First Holy Communion has been jailed for ten years.

A man who was serving a 40-year driving ban when he led gardaí on a high-speed car chase has been jailed for two and a half years.

A man who threatened to put intimate images of his ex-partner up on Facebook if she didn't pay him €5,000 he claimed she owed, has avoided jail.

At least three Dublin Bus buses were observed cutting the corner of a junction where another bus fatally struck a cyclist two years earlier, a court has heard.

Three men have been convicted of kidnapping a family at gunpoint and carrying out a €2.28 million cash-in-transit van robbery 13 years ago.

In July 2012 a court imposed 16 orders against him, including forbidding him from posing as a film director or journalist in search of child subjects.

An investigation has begun into an allegation that the complainant in a child abuse case lied in her evidence, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Slawomir Gierlowski (33) of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin denies attacking the women on dates in 2011, 2015 and 2016 at locations around Clondalkin in south Dublin.

A garda has described how a suspect in a late night sexual assault “zig-zagged” to avoid street lighting while he ran away from the scene.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of carrying out three attacks on women over a five-year period.

A man who raped a foreign student in the hall of her Carlow home after following her from a bus they had shared has been jailed for 10 years.

CCTV footage played in court showed Mr Tansey slumping to the ground. He lay there in a pool of blood while McKeon stepped over him to try to open up the cash register.

A former garda superintendent has apologised for sending a 2011 circular which stated that an internal garda inquiry into allegations of criminality and systemic failures in a local district had vindicated the professionalism of gardaí in the district.

They were aware of his daily routine and told him “we're watching you all the time”, the court heard.

A convicted rapist told a schoolgirl that he was a garda and threatened to arrest her, a court has heard.

A woman has been jailed for three years for her part in a violent late-night robbery which left the victim with a broken eye socket.

The retired surgeon has been jailed for 20 months for sexual attacks on two teenage boys in the mid-70s.

The trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met on Tinder has heard that he told gardaí the woman became hysterical after he tried to kiss her.

A woman who alleges she was attacked by a man she met on Tinder did not tell gardaí about eight minutes spent with the man before the alleged attack, a court has heard.

Updated: A student has told the trial of a man accused of attacking her on a date after they met on Tinder that she never told him she would have sex with him.

An alleged victim of a retired surgeon who denies groping teenage boys has said that he told himself for years that there was nothing improper about what the doctor allegedly did.

A jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a Laois man accused of raping a married mother who he met after she became lost on a night out in Dublin city, reports Declan Brennan.

The Club Players Association has insisted it is making progress on the club fixtures schedule issue but acknowledged it underestimated the full extent of the problem.

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A single mother went on a “massive spending spree” after a bank accidentally deposited €51,000 into her bank account, writes Declan Brennan.

The newly-formed Club Players Association has made its first significant stand by calling on GAA Director General Paraic Duffy to “park” his proposals for Championship reform.

Cork chairman Ger Lane shares the Club Players Association’s concerns the balance of power has tilted too much towards the inter-county scene. However, he has described their support for All-Ireland finals to be played on the August Bank Holiday as “a bit ambitious”.

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Nearly a third of callers to a helpline for teenagers have suicidal thoughts, are suffering abuse, or are self- harming, it has emerged.

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Two former executives from Anglo Irish Bank have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the public in 2008. Declan Brennan looks at the two men whose careers end in disgrace.

A passion for motorsport engendered by rally icon Billy Coleman has inspired Cork native John Campion to assist a group of young talented drivers.

On a farm in the Carlow countryside, a low-flying drone makes its way over the grassy fields. Its mission? To check on the sheep of Herondale farm and move between stomping grounds.

Meet SHEP the drone, who may singlehandedly put the humble sheepdog out of business.

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