A 28-year-old Dublin man who viewed and distributed child pornography has been given a suspended sentence.

A 32-year-old man found to have been insane when he beat his neighbour to death with a crowbar, posted about 2,000 videos of himself reading the bible on YouTube, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Kildare man tasked by senior criminal figures abroad to mind an “arsenal” of firearms and ammunition in the loft of a “fake” Dublin business premises has been sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.

A murder trial jury has heard that a 32-year-old man admits attacking another man with a crowbar in a "vicious manner" which resulted in his death last year in Sligo.

People living in an East Cork village are concerned about plans which could disturb a site where dozens of British soldiers were executed by an IRA unit during the War of Independence.

Gardaí and other frontline workers in the criminal justice system need specialised training in disability awareness to meet statutory obligations under international and domestic law, stakeholders have acknowledged.

A former homeless man who set fires in wheelie bins to heat his sleeping bag has been sentenced to three years in prison for arson at two Dublin locations.

Judges at the Special Criminal Court have said they will deliver a verdict in the case of two men accused of IRA membership next month after the court heard closing speeches today from the prosecution and defence.

A chief superintendent has told the non-jury Special Criminal Court he believes two men are members of the IRA.

A convicted rapist told a schoolgirl that he was a garda and threatened to arrest her, a court has heard.

A woman has been jailed for three years for her part in a violent late-night robbery which left the victim with a broken eye socket.

A Dublin man left a bicycle with his name on a sticker attached to it on church grounds after making off with €500 of Mass donations, a court has heard.

UCC’s Main Quad hosted the 12th A Summer’s Evening on the Quad open-air charity concert last night. 

A Limerick man broke into a parochial house in Dublin to steal money while the priest was away saying mass, a court has heard.

The Saudi Arabian embassy will pay €2,000 in damages caused by a master’s degree student who set upon a fellow student with nunchucks, a Dublin court has heard.

A burglar was so intoxicated that he fell asleep on the homeowner’s bed after piling up the items he intended to steal, a courtheard.

A Wexford burglar was so intoxicated that he fell asleep on the homeowner's bed after piling up the items he intended to steal, a court has heard.

A seven-year-old girl bitten on the stomach and arm by a dog near her home was awarded €38,000 in compensation at the High Court in Cork yesterday.

A man who headbutted a garda trying to arrest him for drunkenly driving into parked cars after a date with a woman he met online went wrong has been jailed for 21 months.

A Dublin man who stabbed a 15-year-old in Kildare leaving him with life-threatening injuries because the teenager had failed to pay a drug debt has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

A 12-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic injuries in the minutes after his birth at the Coombe Women’s Hospital in Dublin has settled his High Court damages action with a final payment of €8.5m.

The High Court has approved an €8.5m final settlement for a 12-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic birth injuries at the Coombe Hospital.

A father who didn’t realise there was a two-year-old boy in the back of the car he was driving during a high speed Garda chase has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

A booklet designed to help young people take care of their mental health has seen its six transition-year creators advance to the finals of three national competitions in the next month.

A Dublin care facility for people with severe disabilities cleared a staff member of any wrong-doing and allowed him return to work before his conviction for sexually abusing a woman with the mental age of three.

A man who threw a pint glass at a woman attending his child’s christening and left the victim with scars and nerve damage to her eye has been jailed for 18 months.

A woman who stabbed her 77-year-old friend three times in the neck and chest after he allegedly asked her to be his girlfriend has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

A man arrested at a Republican Sinn Féin commemoration who went on to assault a detective garda and “took a hold” of his pistol has lost an appeal against conviction.

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

A convicted sex offender will be sentenced next week for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

Two members of the Travelling community have been jailed for taking part in a violent attack on gardai in a halting site

A man who posed as a teenage girl on Facebook in order to sexually exploit boys will be sentenced in December.

A young man who posed as a teenage girl on Facebook in order to sexually exploit boys will be sentenced later this month when it is expected he will plead guilty to further, similar offences.

A lung cancer survivor who said he grew cannabis plants partly for pain relief has avoided going to jail.

A young man posed as a teenage girl on Facebook in order to sexually exploit boys, a court has heard.

Two Dublin drug addicts who could not start their getaway car after robbing an Xtra-vision have escaped jail.

A man who punched and kicked a “good Samaritan” who was trying to help him has avoided a jail sentence.

A teenager who attacked another boy during a fight that had been pre-arranged on Facebook has avoided jail.