A 20-year-old man injured on Halloween night last died as a result of a traumatic brain injury, an inquest heard.

The mother of a teenage victim of alleged cyberbullying says laws need to change to protect children from online predators.

A five-year-old girl who was trapped under a gate while playing with friends died of head injuries, an inquest has heard.

An 18-year-old Dublin youth charged with firearms offences following a shooting incident in which a garda was injured has been refused bail..

A religious sect leader, who claimed he imported a hallucinogenic drug to prepare a revered sacrament for his church’s ceremonies, has been spared a jail sentence.

A cyclist who died following a collision with a taxi in Dublin city centre died from hypovolemic shock.

A judge has adjourned the case of a man accused of damaging one of Dublin’s best known gay bars with homophobic graffiti pending possible further charges.

A man called an ambulance after he saw a couple carrying a body into a car at a house in Lucan, Co Dublin.

A Co Monaghan farmer is facing trial accused of unlawfully importing a hallucinogenic drug.

A garda who went snooping for personal details on a new girlfriend on the Garda Pulse system received one of 75 sanctions imposed on gardaí by the Garda authorities last year.

A girl who died 10 years after suffering injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome fought "an amazing fight", according to her mother.

A 71-year-old man from Newmarket was arrested yesterday and charged with impeding the prosecution of his son on a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

A judge has refused bail to a 34-year-old Co Clare man accused of defiling a teenager after gardaí said the man searched online for countries that you cannot be extradited from.

JUST as America continues to pay an inordinate and irrational price for its bizarre beliefs around citizens’ right to own and use military-grade weapons we pay an equally high, though less bloody, price for our absolute capitulation on openness, transparency or accountability in public life.

A legal battle launched by ex-tycoon Sean Quinn’s family against the former Anglo Irish Bank over €2.34bn loans has been delayed again – pushing it back to next year.

A former Cork solicitor has been returned for trial on a single charge of arson at a solicitor’s office and pub, five charges of theft and four charges relating to fraud offences.

Gardaí have seized cocaine worth €140,000 in Ronanstown in West Dublin.

The Court of Appeal has set aside a man's 12-year prison sentence for possession of drugs worth more than €4m in a case which raised an “important question” regarding construction of the Misuse of Drugs Act, as amended.

Gardaí believe they have disrupted a significant drugs supply network in East Cork following a series of co-ordinated raids at three different locations, which netted them cannabis plants, cannabis herb and ecstasy tablets.

The High Court has heard gardaí are in a "Catch-22" situation when trying to move water protesters from inside barriers where water meters are being installed because it is not a public area and the Public Order Act does not apply.

Gardaí investigating the discovery of cocaine at a house in Dublin last night have charged a man in his 50s in relation to the seizure.

Ten people, including a retired detective garda, have written to the State concerning an application by Ian Bailey to inspect recordings of phone calls between various individuals, including journalists and gardaí, in Bandon Garda Station, the High Court has heard.

A Dubliner who continued to claim his father's pension years after elderly man died has avoided a jail sentence today.

The Tánaiste, Eamon Gilmore, is to meet families of those who died in the 1981 Stardust tragedy in Dublin this morning.

The family of convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons n were followed and abused when he was jailed for six months, a court has been told.

Lawyers for three former Anglo Irish Bank executives due to go on trial next January have raised concerns about the slow pace of the disclosure of documents from the Department of Finance.

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A grandfather who was assaulted while trying to calm tensions outside a Cork City pub suffered fatal head injuries consistent with a fall onto the back of the head.

The proposed Oireachtas inquiry into the banking crisis could be undermined by the timing of the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick.

An Offaly man has admitted to sexually assaulting a woman in a house in Waterford on the second day of his rape trial at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Lithuanian construction worker who viciously beat and attempted to rape an 18-year-old student as she walked home after drinking with friends has been given an eight year sentence.

The mother of a baby boy who died after being born prematurely accused his father of assaulting her like “an animal” and causing her waters to break.

A car dealer has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to evading tax on high-end jeeps.

It isn’t a lack of competition that is causing banks not to lend to small businesses but a lack of funds, the chairperson of the Competition Authority believes.

The High Court has been told that all files have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecution as part of an investigation into the affairs of the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has been urged to give a priority hearing to the appeal by businessman Paul Begley against the severity of his six-year jail sentence over a €1.6m garlic import scam.

Alan Shatter, the justice minister, has denied that the Government had sought to keep key elements of the Director of Public Prosecution’s criticisms of the garda investigation into Ian Bailey from the public.

SIX youths have been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

THE bill of costs for the collapsed Paschal Carmody trial has been served on the Irish Examiner and The Irish Times by the Clare GP’s legal team, a court was told yesterday.

THE CHURCH’S National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) has begun two investigations into the handling of child protection complaints by the Sacred Heart Missionaries.

A 32-YEAR-OLD Austrian librarian is due to appear in court today charged in connection with three alleged air-rage offences that forced a flight to divert to Shannon airport on Saturday.

THE preliminary inquiry into the murder of Michaela Harte in Mauritius in January has found there is enough evidence to send forward two suspects for trial for her killing.