A waste management firm has entered a signed plea of guilty to breaking safety laws in connection with the death of an employee in a workplace accident.

A criminal case relating to alleged online abuse of Clare GAA secretary Pat Fitzgerald and other county officials is at an advanced stage.

The incidents, which saw two men suffer injuries, happened in Mullingar.

The Court of Appeal has found that the sentence of a teenager, who attempted to murder a woman he met on a dating app, was too lenient.

The husband of Jean Eagers is to stand trial accused of murdering her in a samurai sword attack at their suburban home in Dublin.

Gardaí have taken 60 statements and sought CCTV from 30 different premises in Ennis as part of an investigation into an alleged assault on a three-and-a-half-month-old baby girl.

The family of "kind and loving" grandmother Patricia O'Connor believe no sentence could ever be enough for those who helped to cover up her murder.

Ireland’s efforts to eliminate human trafficking have been downgraded this year, according to a new report by the US Department of State.

A 25-year-old man charged with stabbing his parents at their home in Dublin has been further remanded in custody pending a possible bail application next month.

Gardaí investigating an armed hijacking of a van carrying a large sum of cash and valuable car parts last year, are preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions following the arrest of a number of suspects.

A Cork man accused of making Facebook death threats in a feud appeared at Cork District Court yesterday.

Gardaí also processed over 30,000 vetting applications for Covid-19 related roles.

Gardaí seized €25,000 worth of suspected alprazolam pills, according to a spokesperson.

Black Lives Matter protests due to take place in both Cork and Dublin in the coming days have been called off due to fears that organisers may face prosecution.

A third man has been charged with involvement in the attempted murder of Christy Keane by the Limerick-based McCarthy-Dundon crime gang.

The men today were each charged with 24 counts of rape and 24 counts of sexual assault of their younger brother on separate and different occasions at their family home in Co Cork in the 1990s.

A garda was slashed and suffered injuries “from his hairline back to the crown of his head”, a court heard.

Baby Sean Wang, who was 10 months old, died at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, where he had been in intensive care for two days.

A Cork man was arrested today and charged with falsely imprisoning a woman at her home and threatening to kill her.

Two men have been arrested in relation to two separate incidents of vandalism on the €80,000 statue of the late musician and singer Luke Kelly.

The bodies of Deirdre Morley's sons Conor (9) and Darragh (7), and her daughter Carla (3) McGinley were discovered in their home at Parson’s Court in Newcastle on January 24 last.

A man accused of assaulting his own father by striking him over the head with a crutch was remanded in custody for a fortnight today

Gardaí seized €35,000 worth of cocaine at Pope’s Quay in Cork at Christmas 2018 and yesterday a man confessed to drug-dealing charges arising out of the stash.

One of the first prosecutions to be brought for an alleged breach of new Covid-19 Legislation was before Cork District Court today.

Two men confessed yesterday to their parts in a burglary of the home of an 83-year-old woman who woke to see two intruders telling her they were gardaí checking out burglaries.

Gardai have invoked new temporary Covid-19 regulations 241 times between April 8 and May 16.

A 32-year-old man was arrested yesterday on multiple charges, including counts of falsely imprisoning and raping his partner.

A man will appear in court later today, charged after an alleged assault in County Limerick.

A man was attacked in Thomondgate on Friday.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a stable owner’s conviction for raping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

The investigation of an aggravated burglary where a 75-year-old man was locked up in the bedroom of his home late at night saw the arrest of two people who were brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

Gardaí have arrested a man in connection with a seizure of more than €13,000 worth of suspected drugs, cash, and counterfeit cash, linked to a Munster drugs operation.

Bail was refused for a former Israeli soldier accused of intimidating a witness by allegedly threatening to kill the owner of a Cork off-licence and burn him out of the premises where he previously stole a bottle of wine.

A pharmacist was pushed aside by a young man who went behind the counter of the demanding the anxiety drug Xanax and yesterday he was jailed for 10 months.

GSOC is “concerned” that gardai are holding criminal investigations into serving officers without the ombudsman being told or involved.

A man has been arrested following a drug seizure in Sligo.

A mother accused of murdering her three young children at their home in Dublin is fit to plead and face trial, a court heard today.

Nearly nine in ten people are staying home rather than going out, despite a rise in bus users, according to new government research.

Searches resulted in the seizure of a quantity of cocaine with an estimated street value of €2.5m.

The seizure was made following a routine traffic stop in the Bushy Park area of the city at around 7pm yesterday.

Glen Osborne was stabbed in the upper body in a car park outside Ballybough House just before 10pm on Wednesday.

Three people arrested in connection with the discovery of €500,000 worth of drugs and two guns in Dublin, have been released without charge.

The man, in his late 40s, was arrested and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Togher Garda Station.

A teenager has been arrested after a man in his 20s was stabbed multiple times in Cork city on Tuesday night.