Three teenagers have been jailed for an aggravated burglary during which threats were made to rape a woman and to cut off her son’s fingers with a meat cleaver.

A Louth resident who committed a random violent sexual attack on a teenager as the victim’s friend tried to rescue her has escaped jail on condition he pay €15,000 to the girl.

A 17-year-old boy has been given a five-year probation supervision order for the oral rape of his three-and-a-half year old cousin at his Co Clare home almost two years ago.

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment have been given sentences of 14 and 10 years.

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment will be sentenced later.

The trial of a Dundrum man accused of biting off a bar manager's earlobe two years ago has begun today in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A "very dangerous" convicted Polish sex offender has been given a four-year sentence for assaulting his partner who claimed he tried to hang her in their apartment to make it look like suicide.

A Polish woman has denied she was working as a prostitute in her home country when she met a man she claims tried to hang her and make it look like a suicide in their Dublin city centre apartment.

A Polish man allegedly tried to hang his partner to make it look like a suicide as well as severely beating her and throwing a knife at her head the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.