A former detective garda in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation has said he does not believe the reason a superior officer wanted a Garda statement “chopped up” was because it might have been seen as favourable to Ian Bailey.

A Dublin man, who headbutted a senior member of the judiciary and punched a security guard at the Four Courts, has received a €500 fine and a seven-month suspended sentence.

Ian Bailey and four of his lawyers were yesterday given permission by the High Court to inspect transcripts of conversations recorded between gardaí at Bandon station and various people, including journalists.

Two sisters who were sexually abused by their older brother throughout their childhood spoke openly yesterday of how he had ruined their lives.

A mother yesterday told of a heartbreaking prayer she whispered over the bodies of her identical twin sons, after finding them dead at their rented apartment

A father of four lost more than €16,000 worth of heroin while at work because he was high, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A north-inner-city Dublin man has been given 16 years in consecutive sentences by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an attempted Securicor cash van heist while he was on bail for having cocaine for sale or supply.

The son of "a particularly vicious man" has been given 11 years in consecutive sentences for possession of cocaine and cannabis and then having control of a gun a year later while on bail.

A 41-year-old man accused of murder allegedly told gardaí "I’m sorry, it got out of hand, it was a clash of egos" regarding a fatal incident at a new age traveller encampment, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 21-year-old man who stole a Honda jeep and crashed it into an oncoming garda car has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man on early release from a five-year sentence who sprayed blood from his cut hands into the faces of four gardaí after claiming he had ‘the virus’ has been jailed for a further three years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An 18-year-old who burgled a house with a number of other youths on the morning that two gardai were killed when their patrol car was rammed by joyriders has been given three years detention by Judge Michael White.