A ruling that breathalyser test statements were not valid if printed in the English language only, which had held up 1,400 alleged drink driving prosecutions, has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

A man has been excused from serving on the jury in the ongoing trial of four former executives from Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Life and Permanent (ILP).

Lawyers for the State have told the Court of Appeal that 1,400 drink-driving prosecutions are being held up by a ruling that breathalyser test statments were not valid if printed in the English language only.

A man was caught with a cannabis growhouse in his apartment after gardaí on patrol smelled the odour that was being carried onto a city centre street through a makeshift air duct.

Michael McKevitt — who is serving a 20-year sentence for directing terrorism and membership of the Real IRA — is entitled to immediate release arising from recent legal rulings concerning remission rights, the High Court has been told.

A former glassblower has told a murder trial that the accused informed him that he had committed the crime hours after the killing.

A man has told a Mayo murder trial that he was having his morning tea, when a half-naked teenager approached his kitchen window and told him he had been abducted by aliens.

The families of the two most senior RUC officers killed in the Troubles have been failed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), it has been claimed.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a convicted murderer's appeal against his subsequent conviction and his 10-year prison sentence for the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

A British national who is wanted in connection with a conspiracy to import cocaine and cannabis worth millions of pounds into Britain is to challenge his extradition in the Supreme Court.

The barrister of a Dublin man who stabbed his friend to death has asked his trial jury to acquit him of murder on grounds of self-defence.

A former Eircom director who defrauded a building society out of €1.4 million for the purpose of setting up a lottery in Peru has been jailed for four years.

The prosecutor in a Dublin murder trial has told the jury that the accused was ‘spinning quite a web of a deceit’ when he said he acted in self defence.

A murder trial has heard that gardaí were unable to secure CCTV evidence, which the accused wanted to help defend his case.

A Dublin man has testified today that a row, which led to his friend being killed, stemmed from a series of calls that the victim received, but not the dozens of prank calls he made to that friend.

Closing arguments have been heard in the trial of two Louth men accused of manufacturing a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.

A LABOUR councillor has denied influencing a redevelopment plan for Dublin city in order to increase his and his family’s interests in an office block in a prime location in the capital.

The trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances has heard evidence from detectives who placed the pair under surveillance as part of a garda operation on the suspected manufacture of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices by the IRA.

A Dublin man who strangled his partner of seven years has failed in an attempt to have his conviction overturned on appeal.

Six men have been sentenced over a “violent protest” in Mountjoy Prison in which five prison officers were injured.

Closing speeches have been heard in the Special Criminal Court trial of three Northern Ireland men charged with membership of the IRA.

A senior garda witness has told the Special Criminal Court that he is satisfied a Dublin man on trial for membership of the IRA is a member of an unlawful organisation, and was involved in subversive activity for a time prior to his arrest.

A Dublin man has denied in evidence at the Central Criminal Court that he raped a woman as she lay in her bed while her husband slept downstairs.

A 31-year-old unemployed man with "intellectual failings" has been jailed for nine years for twice raping a 13-year-old boy in a Dublin industrial estate container.

A Dublin man accused of raping a 13-year-old boy twice in a container in an industrial estate has told a jury that he never "went near him".

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that a Dublin man denied in a garda interview that he had "plied a 13-year-old boy with drink" before allegedly raping him.

A former professional football player has denied in evidence at the Central Criminal Court that he raped a woman as she lay in her bed while her husband slept downstairs.

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life by the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a Google employee.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a Google employee by fatally stabbing him following an altercation in the street is due to begin its deliberations tomorrow morning.

A 26 year-old Google employee died as a result of two stab wounds to his chest and abdomen which damaged his lung, bowel and aorta, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The man accused of murdering a Google employee on his way home from the pub told gardai that a fight started between them "over nothing", a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A friend of a man who died following an altercation on the way home from the pub has told a jury that he could see his friend's intestines protruding from a bad stab wound to his right side immediately after the incident.

A Dublin man who pleaded guilty to killing his younger brother will be sentenced tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court.

A Galway woman who is currently eight months pregnant will be sentenced on Wednesday for the manslaughter of a neighbour whom she stabbed to death two years ago in a drunken row over a puppy.

A Czech national who has been held in custody for almost one year on a rape charge was found not guilty by a jury which delivered its verdict after some 30 minutes deliberation following a nine-day trial.

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Czech national charged with raping a Galway woman last year.

A 23-year-old Czech national has denied in evidence at the Central Criminal Court that he raped a Galway woman who had run up to him on the street and kissed him while he walked home.

A garda sergeant has revealed she did not take the phone belonging to a Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national, because she assumed it would have no evidential value.

A friend of the Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national has said she bet the complainant "a tenner in jest" that she would not kiss the accused outside the pub they had been drinking in.

The Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national has contradicted a claim in her original garda statement that her trousers were around her knees when she ran towards a friend afterwards.

The Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national has denied defence claims that she had been "caught-out" in her evidence through mobile phone records and timings on CCTV footage.

Gardaí had to restore order in the Central Criminal Court after an unruly, triumphalist demonstration by friends and relatives of a Dublin father who was acquitted of raping and sexually assaulting his daughter.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Dublin father who denies raping and sexually abusing his teenage daughter.

A juror has been discharged from the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of raping his daughter.