A specialist unit dealing with sex crimes in Cork city hasn't been able to take on any new investigations since the end of last year because of a shortage of trained personnel.

A Dubliner who continued to claim his father's pension years after elderly man died has avoided a jail sentence today.

An “almost suicidal” man who held an imitation handgun under a man’s chin wanted gardai to shoot him, a court has heard.

A man who claimed he bought a sawn-off shotgun because his brother became involved in a feud in Mountjoy prison, and later tested the weapon in the Phoenix Park, has been sentenced to four years.

A Nigerian national who claimed he escaped to Ireland after finding five members of his family murdered in their home has been remanded for sentence for assaulting his estranged girlfriend and mother of their child.