A Dublin man has appeared before the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with 50 counts of sexual offences against two young girls.

A 46-year-old taxi driver who "worked all his life" has escaped the mandatory minimum 10-year jail sentence after nearly 10 kilos of cannabis was found in his car.

The trial of two Waterford men accused of INLA membership began today at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A former member of the Slovakian police force who raped a female relative in his Sligo home last year has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Eamon de Valera at the Central Criminal Court.

A Jordanian man who claims an Irishman attempted to murder him by shooting him in the head at a Leasureplex in Dublin’s Blanchardstown, has admitted that he shot at a joyrider with a legally held shotgun several years earlier.