A Carlow solicitor, who took out a fraudulent mortgage after his father’s law firm got into trouble with the Law Society, will be sentenced next week.

A teenager with a condition on the autism spectrum is “very distressed” that her return to Ireland next month from a psychiatric hospital in England may not proceed due to a delay in finding a suitable placement for her here, the High Court has heard.

Three young Irish-born children abandoned by their parents in the UK are to be brought home and placed in care, the High Court has been told.

The High Court has ordered gardaí to apprehend a 16-year-old boy who had absconded from hospital, bring him back and remain with him until a brain scan is carried out on him.

A man who was jailed in 2005 for the violent rape of three women he followed home has received a seven-year sentence after he confessed to carrying out two more sex attacks.

A man who says he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman unconscious before sexually assaulting her has been jailed for four years.

A man who had gone to a cheap drinks promotion at a night club claims he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman unconscious and sexually assaulting her.

The young woman found wandering in a confused and distressed state by gardaí in Dublin last month may be suffering from a psychiatric condition, the High Court heard yesterday.

A woman found in confused state in Dublin's O'Connell Street could be at risk if she is released from care, a court has been told.

The High Court has today granted the gardaí permission to release information about a teenage girl who they have been unable to identify.

Gardaí have asked the High Court for permission to release a picture of a teenage girl found in the capital three weeks ago.

Gardaí trying to identify a teenage girl found dazed and wandering in Dublin three weeks ago have asked a judge for permission to release a photo of her.

A challenge by a couple to the legality of orders taking all their children into care has been adjourned to Monday because their barrister is unwell.

The High Court has heard an Irish adolescent placed in care in Scotland has been dealt with by police after he assaulted staff at the care facility.

A Cavan father of four who agreed to transport more than a €250,000 between criminal gangs in Dublin and Holland has been sentenced to three years.

A 14-YEAR-OLD Irish boy, said to be at the extreme end of disturbed behaviour, is to be moved from Scotland, where he is being treated on behalf of the Health Service Executive, to England for special assessment.

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl who displayed suicidal tendencies was initially denied access to psychiatric services because of a dispute over whether she should be assessed by adult or child services, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has given the parents of a four-year-old Down Syndrome boy with leukaemia until next month to seek expert advice over concerns about his prescribed treatment.

AN Irish man with an intellectual disability and a risk due to his sexualised behaviour will have to be transferred from a British hospital back to Ireland.

THE Health Service Executive is seeking a High Court order requiring that certain drugs be administered from birth to the child of a heavily pregnant HIV positive woman with a view to reducing the risk of transmission of the virus.

The High Court has made a ruling against four Leaving Cert students who have taken a case against the HSE over their removal from Dublin schools to Galway.

The High Court has made orders allowing information contained in a 2001 court case involving a child who died while in state care to be handed over to an inquiry into such deaths.

A COURT has heard that a lifting of the in camera rule in the case of Daniel McAnaspie, the teenager killed earlier this year, would be in the public interest.

The High Court has further extended the detention of a 14-year-old boy with a history of violence and inappropriate sexualised behaviour who has been at a special care facility for children since the weekend pending his proposed transfer to a special unit in Scotla

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has lost two stone in recent months while taking drugs bought from head shops, a court has heard.

A former Christian Brother has told the indecent assault trial of a member of the order that he had disagreement with the accused over his relationship with young people.

A Christian Brother who took a group of disadvantaged boys on holidays to Co Clare has gone on trial charged with indecently assaulting one of them.

A Tallaght man who killed a teenage schoolgirl while speeding on his uninsured motorbike has been jailed for three years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 39 year-old father of five who ran a cocaine manufacturing and mixing plant at his home has received a 12 year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 39-year-old father of five who was found with cocaine valued at €440,000 at his home will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TÁNAISTE Michael McDowell gave his full support to doubling the salaries of lawyers working for the Planning Tribunal while he served as Attorney General in 1999, it has emerged.

A man who drove a car into a taxi driver who had acted as a "Good Samaritan" by trying to save a colleague from an assault, has received a two year suspended sentence and been given 240 hours community service.

Three men caught with drugs worth nearly €3m have been sentenced to a combined total of 21 years in prison by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE Irish Examiner has been cleared of a charge of contempt of court following the publication of newspaper reports earlier this week which led to the discharge of a jury in a murder trial.

A Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband has told the Central Criminal Court he first stuck her violently two weeks before their wedding.

The former State Pathologist, Dr John Harbison, has told a murder trial he detected at least 24 blows of a blunt instrument on the head of the deceased.

A young Dublin physics student told a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court today that his mother, accused of killing his father, just kept saying what an awful thing she'd done and then broke down.

The trial of a civil servant for the murder of her husband dramatically collapsed in the Central Criminal Court today after it emerged that certain material was not disclosed to the defence.

The son of a woman accused of murdering her husband has told her murder trial of constant rows between his parents and of his father’s drunkenness and violence towards the accused.