A Wicklow solicitor who fraudulently borrowed nearly €1m in mortgage bridging loans in an “elaborate and sophisticated deception” has been jailed for three years.

A Wicklow solicitor was suffering from battered housewife syndrome when she fraudulently borrowed nearly €1m in mortgage bridging loans, a court has heard.

A Chinese peasant farmer’s son, who claims he was brutally trafficked into Ireland, was pictured on his €500 iPhone eating crab and drinking red wine at a function in Dublin, the High Court has heard.

Charges against a Galway man who pleaded guilty to raping his niece have been withdrawn after the girl later admitted she was lying.

The trial of a Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A forensics expert has told the trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid that the pattern of telephone calls between two of the suspects was unusual in the run up to the robbery.

A father-of-one accused of taking part in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery was told his life was in danger after the incident, a trial has heard.

Gardaí investigating a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" offered a place on the witness protection programme to one of the two men now accused of taking part in the robbery.

One of alleged raiders in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" fell asleep during the incident and had to be woken up by his accomplice, a trial has heard.

A man accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid five years ago paid €10,000 in cash for a car a month after the robbery, a court has heard.

THE trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

A CASH-IN-TRANSIT driver whose family were held hostage during a tiger kidnapping six years ago has told a trial that he could not drive his van during the incident because he was crying so much.

A cash-in-transit driver whose family were held hostage during a tiger-kidnapping six years ago has told a trial that he couldn't drive his van during the incident because he was crying so much.

The Securicor driver in a "tiger kidnapping" four years ago has confirmed there had been a rumour in his company that someone was followed home before the €2.28m robbery.

A heroin-addict father of two who told gardaí he hijacked a woman's car with her infant child in it and then tried to rob a pharmacy because he wanted to be returned to prison has been jailed for three years.

A heroin addicted father of two told gardaí he hijacked a woman's car just after she put her infant child in the vehicle and then tried to rob a pharmacy because he wanted to be put back in prison.

The trial of a north Dublin teacher accused of unlawful carnal knowledge of one of his pupils has entered its final stages.

The wife of a north Dublin teacher accused of unlawful carnal knowledge of one of his pupils has told a jury they received anonymous phone calls after he was suspended from his job in the face of the allegations.

Friends of a girl at the centre of the trial of a north Dublin teacher accused of unlawful carnal knowledge of her have told the jury they received gifts from the accused while at the school.

A former teacher at a north Dublin girls school has gone on trial accused of two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a transition year student in the grounds of the school five years ago.