Cork County Council was accused yesterday of adding insult to injury by alleging contributory negligence by a workman who was killed during tree-felling in November 2012.

Boy was placed in foster care at the age of eight where he was subsequently abused by another child

A 60-year-old man who shot dead a mother of six and injured her daughter as they sat drinking tea in their kitchen has been found not guilty of murder and attempted murder by reason of insanity.

A mother of five has been convicted of child cruelty following a seven-week trial which heard dozens of allegations of horrific sexual abuse against her youngest son.

A judge drastically reduced yesterday the number of charges against a Waterford father and mother accused of sexually abusing their son.

An Armagh man suggested his partner’s daughter be put on birth control while he was secretly sexually assaulting her, a court has heard.

A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, it has been alleged.

Retired consultant surgeon Dr Michael Shine is to stand trial accused of indecently assaulting 16 young males over three decades.

A TOP criminal law firm has said the country needs a new independent forensic science service or it risks jailing innocent people.

THE husband of hotelier Siobhan Kearney who was found strangled to death over a year ago has been charged with her murder.

A British jury is expected to retire to consider its verdict today in the trial of an alternative therapist accused of murdering his Irish girlfriend in Dublin two years ago.

Ireland's State Pathologist is due to give evidence in London today at the trial of a man charged with killing his Irish girlfriend in Dublin more than two years ago.