Newstalk’s former money doctor, who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud, has been given a four-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform unpaid work in the community.

A carer for an elderly lady has received a three-year suspended sentence for stealing over €30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A Meath insurance broker who took out 38 fictitious policies in order to be paid commission totalling €109,000 will be sentenced in October.

The trial of a man charged with 50 counts of sexual offences against two young girls has been adjourned until Wednesday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A pregnant Dublin woman who assaulted two brothers with the heel of her stiletto shoe has avoided a jail term.

A carer for an elderly lady will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after she stole over é30,000 from the retired school teacher.

An adult ADHD sufferer who bit off part of a man’s ear has received a suspended sentence.

A man who had sex with a 16-year-old girl he contacted on Facebook has been sentenced to three years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

The victim in a mobile phone mugging turned the tables on his attacker by tackling the man to the ground and taking his phone instead, a court has heard.

The victim in a mobile phone mugging turned the tables on his attacker by tackling the man to the ground and taking his phone instead, a court has heard.

The State has withdrawn charges against a man accused of holding a small amount of ecstasy in light of Tuesday’s Court of Appeal ruling which temporarily legalised possession of the drug.

The State has withdrawn charges against a man accused of holding a small amount of ecstasy in light of Tuesday’s Court of Appeal ruling which temporarily legalised possession of the drug.

Donnelly attacked another man, telling him he owed drug money

The judiciary’s spend on wigs, gowns and incidental expenses last year increased by 30%, as judges’ overall expense bill topped €1.73m.

A Dublin barman stabbed a man with a steak knife after finding him in bed with his ex-partner, a court has heard.

A former apprentice butcher who stole over €49,000 from his employer during a “drug-induced paranoia” in the early hours of Christmas Eve last year has had his sentence adjourned.

The Court of Appeal has found that wholly suspended 10-year sentences imposed on a man described as the "oldest drugs mule to come before the courts" and another man for the possession of €1.2m in drugs were too lenient.

A care assistant who stole almost €1,000 from his intellectually disabled clients has received a two year suspended sentence.

A woman - who assaulted two brothers with the heel of her stiletto shoe at a nightclub in Dublin - will be sentenced next January.

A man who shot a colleague in the buttock at a recycling firm has been sentenced to seven years in jail, with the final three suspended.

A man who took part in an armed robbery of a Dublin pharmacy was arrested after he and his accomplice were later discovered asleep on a pile of the stolen cash..

A Dublin man poured petrol on himself outside a garda station and threatened to set himself on fire, a court has heard.

A former director of a Kerry plant hire and subcontracting company resigned because of his convictions for handling and possession for stolen vehicles, a court has heard.

A bishop has spoken of his regret at the use of corporal punishment during his time at a teacher.

A man has been jailed for four years for setting a house in Dublin on fire to put "the fear of God" into a four-year-old boy who was asleep inside.

A father who claimed a judge was biased because of alleged political interference by former Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke during family law proceedings has lost a legal challenge seeking to set aside an order granting full custody of his son to his estranged wife.

Convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons bowed his head yesterday when a judge said he must go back to prison to serve another 18 months on top of six months already served.

Traumatic events can define you, destroy you, or strengthen you, and Kilkenny All Ireland hurling champion Adrian Ronan yesterday said his family believe they will be strengthened by their tiger kidnap ordeal after a man was jailed for eight years for the crime.

Businessman Anthony Lyons agreed to pay almost €200,000 compensation to a woman whom he violently sexually assaulted under a settlement of a civil action taken by her, it was disclosed at the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday.

Two men have been jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for attacking a group in Temple Bar almost four years ago.

A woman who became addicted to morphine medication after an accident at work has admitted forging prescriptions to get the drug.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who received a six-month custodial sentence for a violent sexual assault, will "never be forgotten" and will "always be notorious", the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.

A Dublin father-of-six who punched a man who was singing karaoke at a Christmas party may be spared jail.

A Dublin man has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge of robbery and of falsely imprisoning a Brinks Allied employee, his mother, and a child.

The HSE was asked to investigate a man who was accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter — he was given the all-clear and deemed to be at a low risk to children.

A 48-year-old man who sexually abused his step daughter at their home in Donnycarney in Dublin has been jailed for 18 months.

A man has been acquitted of a taxi driver’s manslaughter over two years ago.

A Dublin man has been acquitted of a taxi driver’s manslaughter in the city over two years ago.

A man accused of a taxi driver’s manslaughter told gardaí he threw a punch to avoid being hit over a dispute about a fare.

A sixty-year-old Limerick father carried €140,000 worth of cocaine from Limerick to Dublin on the train, a court has heard.

Four young Nigerian men will be sentenced later for their role in a street attack on nightclub goers and a DJ over three years ago.

A man who hit a 70-year-old man over the head with a crowbar and stole his bus pass has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.