A Polish man must await the outcome of his appeal against the five life sentences imposed on him for the rape and sexual assault of a woman.

A High Court action by a man over alleged sexual abuse by Dr Michael Shine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been settled without admission of liability.

A young man accused of dangerous driving causing death has today denied in evidence that he colluded with his friends when giving a statement to gardaí.

A 52-year-old HSE care worker was found storing more than 50,000 head shop tablets in a vegetable garden, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A Belfast haulier who was caught with €1m worth of cannabis after gardaí stopped him because of a broken tail light has been jailed for three years by Judge Tony Hunt.

AA man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping a woman in a Tipperary hotel as her boyfriend slept beside her.

A man on trial for conspiracy to possess drugs has claimed he dropped a car, in which a large amount of drugs was later found, off at a west Dublin car park as a favour for “Mr Martin Hyland”.

A forensic scientist has told a jury at the trial of two men accused of conspiracy to possess drugs that there is “strong support” to show that one of the men had been in contact with a car containing a large amount of drugs.

Two men have gone on trial accused of conspiracy to possess three quarters of a ton of cannabis resin in west Dublin.

A Polish national has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in her County Offaly home after tying up her boyfriend and attacking him with a knife and baton.

A Polish national has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with raping his former girlfriend after tying up her boyfriend with rope and duct tape in their Offaly home.

A prominent Dublin waste contractor has been fined €10,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for unauthorised "recovery" of inert waste at an illegal dump in Co. Wicklow in the late 1990s.

A Cavan man who received an 18-month suspended sentence for sexually assaulting another man has had his sentence partially reactivated by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A fifth Longford man has walked free after being acquitted by a jury of committing violent disorder arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

A fourth Longford man has been declared not guilty of violent disorder at the trial arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

Charges alleging two Longford men were part of an armed group who ambushed a wedding party and shot two passengers have been withdrawn from a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A witness has identified three Longford men as having been part of a group of "40 lads" who ambushed his car and shot a family member as they drove to a wedding.

A Kildare teenager will be sentenced later at the Central Criminal Court for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

A brother of the De La Salle order has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of abusing a former resident at a children's institution for young offenders more than 20 years ago.

An ex-Christian Brother has been acquitted by direction of Judge Tony Hunt of sexually assaulting boys some 40 years ago in a Galway industrial school.

A jury has been given copies of letters exchanged between a Christian Brother and the family of a boy who was lodged in a Galway residential school after his father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards.

A Wicklow businessman has been fined €1m for putting the drinking water in Blessington at risk of contamination by illegally dumping dry industrial waste.

A Wicklow businessman has been fined €1m for putting the drinking water in Blessington at risk of contamination by illegally dumping dry industrial waste on a site there.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the families and victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to the transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court as part of a civil case being brought against the five in the North.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

Judgment has been reserved in a High Court action brought by the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing aimed at securing documents from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

A waste disposal company, its director and a truck driver contracted to the company have had their sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges of illegal dumping at sites in Wicklow.