A Clare resident who defrauded a company out of goods valued at nearly €5,000 while wearing a shirt saying “Trust Me” has been given a two year sentence with the balance suspended from today.

A Clare man who defrauded a company out of goods valued at nearly €5,000 while wearing a shirt saying “Trust Me” has been told to come up with compensation or he will have to perform community service.

A "very dangerous" convicted Polish sex offender has been given a four-year sentence for assaulting his partner who claimed he tried to hang her in their apartment to make it look like suicide.

The owner of a stolen €80,000 value in-foal mare which was found in a Co Meath field has told a court he handed €6,000 to a man who claimed he could help him recover it from "the scumbags that took it".

A Nigerian national who claimed he escaped to Ireland after finding five members of his family murdered in their home has been remanded for sentence for assaulting his estranged girlfriend and mother of their child.