The victims of a Waterford-based paedophile who was yesterday jailed for 14 years and two months have urged anyone else who suffered abuse to come forward and tell their story.

Two brothers have each been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years imprisonment, with four years suspended, for “a brutal, vicious, and degrading” attack on their uncle which left him “at death’s door” but which had no apparent motive.

A one-time high-achieving Trinity College graduate is finally to return home, nearly 10 years after he was caught following a dramatic and reckless armed robbery of a bank in the United States.

A jury has convicted two brothers of causing their uncle serious harm in an alcohol-fuelled row at his home almost four years ago.

A jury is today expected to begin its deliberations in a case in which two brothers are accused of a serious assault on their uncle at his home almost four years ago.

The absence of “really important” evidence from a witness was a massive piece of the jigsaw that was missing in an assault case, a court heard yesterday.

A dog owner is refusing to hand up his three dogs for destruction and had “fled from dog wardens”, a court in Kerry was told.

One of two brothers charged with assaulting their uncle told gardaí he hit him on the side of the head with a tennis racquet and that the other brother hit him with an ashtray during a row, a court heard.

Two brothers have gone on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee accused of recklessly or intentionally causing serious harm to their uncle at his home in Kerry almost four years ago.

A garda who has pleaded not guilty to attacking a man in Dublin City centre in 2012 will go on trial in January, a judge ordered yesterday.

A 24-year-old Limerick motorist with cumulative driving bans totalling 93 years has clocked up a further 40 years of disqualifications at Limerick District Court.

Bail was yesterday refused for a Limerick man who, it was claimed, made full and frank admissions of being the driver of a car which struck three elderly men in Parteen village last Thursday while being pursued by gardaí.

A motorist has avoided jail after putting the lives of other motorists at risk, when he smoked cannabis before driving at speed against oncoming traffic.

A pensioner facing 80 charges of sexually assaulting and defiling a teenage girl and who is on free legal aid, yesterday asked a court to return his passport so he can go on holidays to Spain and Orlando, Florida.

Two gardaí facing assault charges were further remanded on bail at Limerick District Court yesterday.

A man arrested at Dublin Airport allegedly trying to flee the country to avoid rape charges has been remanded in continuing custody after appearing before court in Limerick today.

A mother of three has appeared in court charged with neglect and cruelty to her children, including two babies.

An 82-year-old American who was extradited to this country last week on rape and sexual assault charges was yesterday granted bail at Limerick District Court.

In one of the first cases of its kind in Limerick, a notorious rapist who attacked a teenage French student the day before she went home was yesterday given a suspended jail sentence for failing to notify gardaí that he had moved address in the city.

A Limerick man who was extradited from Bulgaria to face charges of threatening to kill a key State witness has been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick man extradited from Bulgaria to face charges of threatening to kill a key State witness, has been granted bail, despite strenuous Garda objection.

An order was sought yesterday to bar a 20-year-old resident of Moyross, alleged to have been involved in shootings, stabbings, intimidation, coercion, and damage to property, from an estate.

The brutal killing of a Limerick breadman during his delivery run was recalled yesterday when the mother of the gunman sought a court order for the return of her car which was used by her son after the murder.

When he could not get access to his young daughter, David Markham decided to get his own back on his former partner.

A man who gave a “torturous beating” to a horse that had to be put down was yesterday jailed for six months.

An off-duty Garda, his brother, and another man, accused of getting involved in a street fight last summer, have appeared in court in Limerick.

Two days after being warned by a judge about stealing, a Limerick woman tried to wheel a trolley packed with 135 items from a Dunnes Stores outlet without paying, a court heard.

A nun found a man sleeping in her bed at a convent, a court heard.

Former State witness April Collins has been banned from driving for 12 years and warned she will go to jail if she is caught driving while disqualified again.

An eastern European drugs gang is forcing newly arrived immigrants to sell drugs around the country, threatening harm to their families at home.

A troubled Limerick youth who absconded from Limerick University Hospital after being placed there by the HSE as a temporary care measure was in a secure detention centre last night after handing himself up.

State services are now operating a “pass the parcel” system when dealing with troubled teens, a District Court judge has warned.

Two toddlers, one aged two and the other 17 months, were found asleep on a high chair and a bean bag when HSE inspectors visited a Limerick creche.

A woman who retracted a statement she made to gardaí alleging she was raped 43 times was subjected to systematic intimidation so that her alleged assailant could get bail, Limerick District Court heard.

A man appeared in court yesterday on a child pornography offence, accused of having in his possession images of naked boys.

A district court judge has reinstated free legal aid for a father of three who failed to turn up in court because he was on holiday abroad.

Hard-pressed taxpayers and mortgage-holders have “had it up to their necks” as far as free legal aid is concerned, Limerick County Council heard yesterday.

A father of three who had legal aid withdrawn after he went on holidays instead of appearing in court was on his first family vacation in seven years, a judge has been told.

The sizzling temperatures raised the temperature at Limerick District Court yesterday.

A defendant on free legal aid could not attend court because he is abroad on a sun holiday with his partner and their three children, a court heard yesterday.

Four graffiti enthusiasts yesterday spent over an hour in a holding cell at Limerick courthouse.

By doing a “runner” while on compassionate leave to attend a family funeral, a Limerick remand prisoner had posed difficulties for others seeking similar treatment by the State, a judge said yesterday.