The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgement in the case of a Co Louth man appealing against his conviction for membership of the IRA.

The judge in the trial of a man accused of plotting to steal from a cash-in-transit van has been accused of disgraceful and outrageous behaviour by a defence barrister today.

A jury has heard that a man accused of plotting to steal from a cash-in-transit van had been told by Eamonn Dunne that he would be shot if he did not get involved.

A Mayo barman who carried out increasingly depraved rapes and sexual assaults against two girls aged eight and nine has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury has heard that a teacher’s defence in a child pornography trial is that his computer and the images on it are those of a gay man not a person interested in child pornography.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a convicted armed robber appealing against his life sentence for the rape and sexual abuse of a young girl over an eight-year period.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled against lawyers for a father of three accused of IRA membership, that his arrest by Gardaí was invalid and that the investigation was a "sham".

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to appeal against the leniency of sentences handed down to two men jailed earlier this month for “a cowardly and unprovoked attack” that killed Clare schoolteacher Brian Casey.

TWO Clare men were yesterday jailed for “a cowardly and unprovoked attack” that ended the life of a 26-year-old school teacher on St Stephen’s night in Ennis last year.

A 62-YEAR-OLD man who killed his wife when he put his hands around her neck during a struggle after she came at him with a knife has been given a six-year suspended sentence.

The Court of Criminal Appeal adjourned its decision today on a bid by a Dublin criminal to take his case to the Supreme Court on a “point of exceptional public importance”.

A young Tallaght father who head-butted a woman when she resisted his attempts to rape her has been jailed for four and a half years.

A teenager who alleges she was repeatedly sexually abused from the age of eight by a barman in a Co Mayo pub has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she kept going back because she was getting alcohol and cigarettes.

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.

A Co Louth man accused of IRA membership has been granted leave by the High Court to bring proceedings aimed at stopping his prosecution.

A 25 year-old man Kerry man who was due to be tried for the murder of a homeless man in Tralee has pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man appealing against his conviction and life sentence for the rape of his then partner's teenage daughter was found guilty after he received a fair trial, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard yesterday.

A Northern Ireland man arrested at a Co Monaghan farmyard made no reply when questioned by Special Branch detectives about the activities of dissident republicans, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The Special Criminal Court today refused to discharge itself from trying the case of three Armagh men accused of membership of a dissident republican organisation.

A Garda Chief Superintendent involved in the investigation of three Armagh men accused of membership of the Real IRA had suspected one man of membership for 20 years, the Special Criminal Court heard today.