A Dublin man has brought a legal challenged aimed at preventing him being tried for a third time on charges of kidnapping a family and stealing €2.28m.

THE trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28 million tiger kidnapping robbery has heard evidence of dozens of phonecalls allegedly made by the raiders during the incident.

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 Court Martial Appeal Court has ordered “a stay” on the dismissal of an Air Corp officer from the Defence Forces, pending the outcome of an appeal against his conviction for calling a Lt Col “a little p***k”.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its decision in the appeal of a 26-year-old Dublin man jailed for eight years for conspiracy to possess cocaine.

An extradition request for a man wanted in connection with the shooting dead of a British Army recruitment officer in Derby more than 17 years ago has been further adjourned to early December.

The Courts Service have issued an apology after a jury was discharged in a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court partly because a wheelchair using juror was unable to gain access to jury boxes in The Four Courts building.

A surgeon told a murder trial today that two wounds found in the deceased’s heart during autopsy, presumed to be caused by a stabbing, were actually caused by him and a colleague.

Gardaí were unable to search an assembled crowd of up to 80 travellers outside a Sligo cemetery on the day a traveller was fatally shot in the back at a family funeral, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The uncle of a man shot in the back at a family funeral has denied suggestions that he was not at the cemetery when gun shots broke out.

IRISH lawyers have rebuffed George Bush’s attempts to exonerate himself personally over the maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners.