Blood matching that of Anastasia Kriegel was found on a backpack, mask, gloves and knee pads seized from the home of one of the two boys accused of her murder, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

An alleged "IRA man" who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago has been jailed for seven years.

The victim of an alleged IRA man who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago said his dream life was in “tatters” from the moment the man entered his house.

A young Dublin man who burst his girlfriend's eardrum in a beating which left her vomiting for a whole night has been sentenced to four and a half years.

An alleged IRA man accused of raping two teenage boys in a Republican safe house told one of them they would be “found on a border road” if they informed anyone of the alleged rape, a jury has heard.

An alleged IRA man has gone on trial accused of raping two teenage boys in a republican safe house in the 1990s.

A man stabbed 28 times before escaping from the boot of a car that was pushed into a canal near the Battle of the Boyne site, has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he thought he was going to die.

Jurors found Marian Lingurar Jr guilty of the manslaughter of Oughterard publican and teacher, John Kenny(56), who was found badly beaten, tied up and left to die alone on the floor of the ladies toilet in his pub

Fair Trial Europe has applied to join High Court extradition proceedings involving Artur Celmer, who is wanted to face trial in his native Poland on drug trafficking charges.

A "martial arts expert" who punched his pregnant wife unconscious and fractured her jaw, has been jailed for three years.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

A Limerick man who called gardaí and told them he had just tried to kill his elderly neighbour will be sentenced next week for attacking and sexually assaulting the woman.

A man who admitted killing a 42-year-old man on Christmas Eve two years ago is living with the deceased’s widow and child, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The High Court will hear arguments on the potential consequences of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union later this month in the context of extradition proceedings in which fair trial rights will be argued owing to delay.

A jury in a conspiracy to defraud trial has been asked to consider the fact the financial regulator knew about the so-called “back-to-back transactions”.

A man who facilitated the production of child pornography involving his own daughter which her mother filmed, must wait to hear whether his appeal against sentence has been successful.

A man who says he was sexually abused by a priest who was working as a music teacher while at secondary school in the 1980s told a court he didn’t tell anyone about the abuse until 2009 because he didn’t know how it would be received.

On the 40th anniversary of Éamon de Valera’s death, his biographer Ryle Dwyer examines the changing perceptions of the long fellow including why he was called a spy.

A convicted murderer has appealed his conviction on grounds that gardaí “harvested” evidence from him after telling his solicitor he was in custody on foot of a separate matter.

A High Court judge became emotional yesterday as he thanked his family on the eve of his retirement from the bench.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who received a six-month custodial sentence for a violent sexual assault, will "never be forgotten" and will "always be notorious", the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.

The three leading defence counsel in the Anglo trial shared over €1m (including Vat) in State fees for their work in the criminal courts.

A Limerick man who left a schoolboy with permanent brain damage after beating him unconscious in an unprovoked attack has successfully appealed against the 15-year sentence imposed on him.

A Tallaght bar and nightclub owner will be sentenced next year for health and safety breaches that resulted in an employee being crushed to death in a lift shaft.

Convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons had to leave his home to live and work in England after his release from prison because of media attention on him and his family, it was claimed before the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday.

The family of convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons n were followed and abused when he was jailed for six months, a court has been told.

High-profile aviation broker Anthony Lyons will go back to prison after the Court of Criminal Appeal found the six-month custodial sentence imposed on him for a violent sexual assault was “unduly lenient”.

AFTER completing my doctoral dissertation on Irish neutrality, Tim Pat Coogan, the then editor of The Irish Press, wrote that his newspaper would be interested in publishing a series of articles based on the papers of David Gray, the American wartime minister to Ireland, but he added his own health warning.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has overturned the country’s first successful cold case murder conviction.

The former head of the country’s biggest fruit and vegetable company must wait to learn if his appeal against his six-year sentence for failing to pay import tax on garlic has been successful after the Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgment.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who was convicted earlier in the year of sexual assault, may be released from prison before the hearing on the leniency of the sentence imposed has been heard.

A former judge has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for attempting to deceive her elderly friend out of half of his estate while he was a client of her solicitors firm.

A former District Court judge has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after being convicted of deception.

A Yale graduate and a rugby team vice-captain have each been fined €200 after they sat each other’s Leaving Certificate physics exam.

A high-profile aviation broker has been convicted of sexual assault after a jury rejected his claim that his cholesterol medication made him do it.

The wife of a businessman accused of sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home has told his trial that he is a kind and gentle man.

A former Christian Brother who sexually abused three teenage students in the deaf school he worked in has been sentenced to 12 years with the last three suspended.

A “predator” who raped two mentally impaired brothers has been sentenced to eight years at the Central Criminal Court with the final two suspended.

A 25-year-old mother-of-one is to be sentenced on Monday for killing a man by crushing him with her car in Blanchardstown four years ago.

The judge in a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has told the jury that there are circumstances in which intoxication can reduce murder to manslaughter.

One of four men charged with murdering a father-of-three in Dublin two years ago will be acquitted by the jury on the direction of the trial judge.

A man involved in planning a murder in Dublin more than two years ago was granted immunity from prosecution after he gave statements against four other men.

Four Dublin men have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a father-of-three in a city pub two years ago.