The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against the undue leniency of an eight-year sentence handed down to a Dublin man who viciously raped and threatened to kill a woman he dragged from a busy public road.

A woman accusing her ex-boyfriend of harassment, assault and rape has denied she had sex with him and his wife for a number of months before the alleged incidents.

THE sentencing judge in the case against the two men who caused the deaths of two teenagers in Knocknaheeny last May apologised that it could not go ahead yesterday because one defence senior counsel was not present in court.

A young man has revealed similarities between two men caught on shop CCTV and raiders who kidnapped him and his family in a €2.28m Securicor robbery.