People who report being a victim of a sex offences are most likely to seek reasons from the Director of Public Prosecutions as to why nobody was prosecuted for the crimes against them.

A man is seeking to challenge a seven-year old conviction for not displaying an insurance disc on his car after he learnt from gardai two months ago correct procedures had not been followed in his prosecution.

A man given 12-year sentences for raping and sexually abusing his three step-children must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal.

A WOMAN who reported her housemate to police in the North for buying drugs online to abort an unborn child has defended the move.

Gardaí are investigating an early-morning sexual attack on a woman in a Dublin suburb.

Crime victims will have the right to know when offenders are released from jail and seek a review of decisions taken by the DPP under new laws aimed at rebalancing the justice system.

A Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial jury that a 30 year old man was stabbed four times, with the fatal blow being an 18cm deep stab wound to his left shoulder which penetrated his lung.

Convictions for crimes under a law used to prosecute internet trolls have increased eightfold in a decade, UK figures reveal.

A man whose neighbour allowed him to rape her five-year-old daughter repeatedly over a three-year period has been sentenced to 14 years in prison today.

Singer Dolores O’Riordan is set to learn her fate before Christmas on three alleged assaults arising from an air rage incident at Shannon Airport last month.

An independent review into the handling of Mairia Cahill's rape allegations has started in Belfast.

Says inability to attend mother’s funeral was ‘the cruellest abuse’

The two legal experts who will review the case involving alleged rape victim Maíria Cahill have been named by the North’s Director of Public Prosecutions.

Four suspects have been reportedly identified by police in Mauritius investigating the murder of Michaela McAreavey in a hotel there in 2011.

Northern Ireland’s chief prosecutor has said letters to on-the-run republicans telling them they are not wanted by police are of no value to perpetrators.

A knife attacker has had his sentencing for attempted murder stalled in what is believed to be the first criminal case affected by this week’s Supreme Court ruling on access to solicitors for suspects in custody.

SEVERAL serious crime investigations could be adversely affected by the decision of deputy state pathologist, Dr Khalid Jaber, to resign.

The Department of Justice is refusing to detail how the State Pathologist’s Office will manage its workload in the wake of the sudden resignation of deputy state pathologist Dr Khalid Jaber.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has claimed he is not concerned that his former lawyer ordered a review of allegations that he withheld information on his sex abuser brother.

Holding an Oireachtas probe into the banking collapse before criminal trials take place would be “foolish”, former DPP James Hamilton has warned.

Gardaí are investigating a claim that an off-duty garda was involved in a sex attack against a woman at a house in a Dublin suburb last weekend.

Eight people investigated about the murder of a journalist in the North over a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about the evidence of a key witness, the DPP for Northern Ireland said yesterday.

Eight people investigated in connection with the murder of a journalist in the North more than a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about a key witness's evidence, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said today.

Full transcript of statement from rape victim Fiona Doyle following today's court decision.

Rape victim Fiona Doyle said today that she felt vindicated after her father was jailed today for raping her over a 10-year period.

Jimmy Savile was “a prolific, predatory sex offender” who could have been prosecuted for offences against at least three victims while he was alive, two separate reports said today.

Rape crisis groups have hit out at indications from the state prosecutor’s office that it may backtrack on plans to give sex crime victims reasons why charges are not being taken in their cases.

An unnamed senior garda or gardaí allegedly tried to get the state solicitor for West Cork to put political pressure on the DPP to prosecute Ian Bailey for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, it emerged yesterday.

French authorities are almost certain to try Ian Bailey in his absence for murder, the lawyer representing the family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier indicated.

THE files outlining the state prosecutor’s handling of the 1996 Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder have been passed to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

THE HSE and the Director of Public Prosecutions are working on a new protocol to deal with requests from defendants in rape cases for counselling notes, which retired DPP James Hamilton has described as a “tactic” designed to intimidate alleged victims.

THE law should be changed to make it easier to prosecute carers who sexually exploit people with disabilities, the outgoing DPP has said.

MORE than one-third of suspects named in files sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions were not prosecuted last year, the office’s annual report has revealed.

SUSPECTED paedophile priests identified in the Murphy Commission’s report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin may face charges.

A Lucan taxi call-centre worker who sexually abused his young nephew over 28 years ago will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin father accused of sexually abusing his children has said he believes the woman who fostered his son “planted” stories of abuse and neglect in the boy’s mind for “underlying reasons”.

JUDGES are allowing rape victims be questioned in court about their sexual history in nearly three in four trials, leading to growing concern about the prejudicing of cases, according to research.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions received a record number of files last year despite staff cuts which have placed a “heavier burden” on employees.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions has said an increasing number of suspected rape cases were “unprosecutable” because complainants were intoxicated at the time of the assault and can’t remember much of what happened.

British law on assisted suicide should be made “appropriate for the 21st century”, right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy said today as prosecutors began work on new guidelines following her landmark legal win.

Gardaí have welcomed new powers given to the DPP to oppose all bail decisions granted by district courts.

A Galway man has had his conviction for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl more than a decade ago has been declared a miscarriage of justice.

THE State has been ordered to explain why it is seeking legal privilege over documents wanted by ‘Black Widow’ Catherine Nevin in her fresh bid for freedom.

A Limerick man who raped a Tipperary woman in her home has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.