A garda believed she would be choked to death when a “drunken” high-ranking British navy officer suddenly attacked her, the High Court has heard.

A minute's applause has been held at the start of the Republic of Ireland game against Scotland at the Aviva.

As a new season kicks off, Liam Mackey takes a deep breath, dons a suit of armour and selects his top 25 League of Ireland players of all time. Be sure to let us know who you think the best player is.

The High Court has backed a computerised searching method to assess the relevancy of more than 680,000 electronic documents for a case alleging businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family conspired to wrongfully convert €455m worth of a bank’s assets.

The High Court has refused applications by Rory McIlroy’s former management team, Horizon Sport Management Ltd, for orders seeking inspection of the golfer’s mobile phones.

Dublin pensioners Martin and Violet Coyne were "illegally" evicted from the house they had rented for 15 years, a court has been told.

-Four victims were aged 13-15 when abused by ‘evil’ perpetrator

Paschal Carmody said yesterday “it is very hurtful” that he has had to spend millions of euro to defend his innocence over the past nine years.

Former Co Clare GP Paschal Carmody said after yesterday’s trial that his reputation had been restored and he had been “totally vindicated.”

There was a dramatic development in the case of a former school supervisor who had already pleaded guilty before a jury of defrauding the Department of Education of more than €24,000.

Two men who were found guilty to forging a will each had sentences imposed yesterday.

Nolan Transport has been fined €1m after an incorrectly secured 25-tonne load led to a horrific crash that resulted in the death of two women in Jul 2007, including the wife of Kilkenny hurling goalkeeper James McGarry.

A 30-year-old man who held the wife of a bank manager hostage in her home has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A dentist convicted of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old dental nurse at his surgery has withdrawn his appeal against the Dental Council's decision erasing his name from the list of registered dentists.

A dentist convicted of sexually assaulting a young dental nurse has appealed against the Dental Council’s decision that his name should be erased from the list of registered dentists.

The dentist convicted of sexually assaulting a dental nurse during an examination at his surgery in Cork is still registered to practise here.

THERE were plenty of household names, old friends, familiar faces and League of Ireland veterans in the Aviva Stadium the other night for the launch of a new book about the FAI Cup.

A PRISON officer, said by a judge to have been responsible for a “colossal breach of trust” for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Limerick prison was yesterday jailed for five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A CIRCUIT Court judge yesterday said overall control of prescription pads used by doctors in the medical card scheme (GMS) was “very loose” and suggested that improvements be made to the system.

IRISH exports to Britain could come under renewed pressure as sterling starts to lose the major gains made since March.

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