Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

The trial of four men accused of kidnapping a Securicor worker and his family and robbing €2.28m has heard that two of the accused were “lifelong friends” and members of a horse-owning syndicate.

A man who hid 66 pellets of cocaine internally in his body to smuggle them into Ireland has been jailed for three years.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of a weightlifting enthusiast accused of IRA membership who was arrested during a garda operation against dissident republicans.

A cake decorating expert gave evidence to gardaí about 16 bags of icing sugar found in a car driven by a Louth man accused of membership of the IRA, his Special Criminal Court trial has heard.

A trial has today been hearing details from the phone records of a man accused of murder and his alleged victims today.

A 41-year-old woman has denied that her husband stabbed her cousin to death after finding her in bed with him.

Gardaí investigating a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" offered a place on the witness protection programme to one of the two men now accused of taking part in the robbery.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

Three Mountjoy Prison inmates have received consecutive sentences for their roles in a riot that caused a five hour lock-down and left prison officers with broken teeth.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the 14-year sentence handed down to a Kerry man who killed a man he found in bed with his brother’s teenage ex-girlfriend.

The husband of a Latvian mother of two gunned down at her north Dublin home was today refused bail to attend her funeral.