Alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt will have to wait until at least next week to hear if he will get out of jail early.

The High Court has finalised the basis on which a British national, who is wanted in connection with a conspiracy to import cocaine and cannabis worth millions of pounds into the United Kingdom, can appeal his extradition to the Supreme Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of three Northern Ireland men appealing against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgment in the case of a convicted murderer appealing against his subsequent conviction and 10-year sentence for the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Lawyers for a Dublin man convicted of strangling his partner of seven years told the Court of Criminal appeal today that it was “unprecedented” for the jury at the original trial to have been shown photographs of the victim’s body.

A Garda witness in the case of a man on trial for membership of the IRA has denied that he and his colleagues decided to "do" the accused for membership, when they found no firearms in his possession.

The Special Criminal Court has heard that items regularly used to make pipe-bombs were discovered at the home of a man on trial for membership of an unlawful organisation.

The man accused of murdering a 'Google' employee as he walked home from the pub told gardaí that he was not a violent person and had not meant to stab or kill the deceased.

A Cork man who raped a teenage girl after he and his brother spent €300 on cocaine and alcohol has been jailed for four years by Ms Justice Maureen Clark at the Central Criminal Court.

The son of a retired Garda took to the stand in the Special Criminal Court today to say he had brought a Garda hat into the house of a father of 10 accused of IRA membership while playing with the accused's son during Halloween.

A t-shirt saying "I'm a bomb technician- if you see me running try to keep up" was found in the house of a father-of-ten accused of IRA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Garda ballistics expert has told the Special Criminal Court that he found no evidence of any explosive substances in a car that had been stopped at gunpoint on the N4 near Mullingar.