A travelling salesman from Co Wexford who was serving a suspended sentence for sexual assault when he raped a woman has been jailed for five years.

A 41-year-old man facing a trial for rape, sexual exploitation, and defilement of a girl under the age of 17 pleaded guilty to one charge and was remanded in custody yesterday.

A Cork man accused of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home four years ago has walked free after the trial judge directed the jury to enter a not-guilty verdict yesterday.

A Macroom man was put on trial by judge and jury yesterday on a charge of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home exactly four years ago.

An 81-year-old company director who failed to pay almost €340,000 in Vat returns which had been paid to his company by customers was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A 42-year-old man confessed yesterday to three counts of sexually assaulting a girl in the shed of a farm in 1990.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

A middle-aged man told a jury yesterday he never sexually assaulted his two nephews and claimed they made the complaints because he did not give them money.

A middle-aged man on trial for sexually assaulting his two nephews claimed they were making up the allegations because he refused to give them money.

It is of “paramount importance” to Sean Dunne “to get free of the shackles of bankruptcy”, lawyers for the developer have told the High Court.

A dual-qualified pharmacist and vet has been convicted of impeding officials from the Department of Agriculture as they sought veterinary prescription records from his place of work. He was yesterday fined €10,000.

A former banker, turned financial consultant, played on the worries of friends and acquaintances about the safety of banking money in Ireland in 2011 and got them to pay him €145,000 by deception.

A Congolese national involved in classic white-collar crime in Cork, stealing over €324,000 from his employer and trying to steal €300,000 more, was jailed for five years yesterday.

Former lord mayor of Cork John Murray — now aged 83 — has gone on trial on six counts of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the 1990s.