A retired garda, who feared for his life when he was assaulted and dragged towards a river by an “enormous semi-naked” man, was yesterday awarded €80,000 compensation in the High Court.

Emergency 999 calls were made repeatedly for an hour by a Corkman who, became abusive when approached by gardaí.

Drumshanbo in Leitrim may seem “a tidy, quiet, and even sleepy place” but “certainly was not such” around 3.30am one Sunday in September when a Garda claimed to find several people drinking in Monica’s pub, sparking off events ultimately leading to his dismissal, a Supreme Court judge said yesterday as he overturned that dismissal.

A 47-year-old Czech man, who was in the country for just one day when he broke into a house in Killarney, must leave and not return for 10 years to avoid a jail term, a court heard.

A man has been sentenced to 18 years for the repeated rape and sexual assault of two very young girls in Kildare almost 10 years ago.

Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely is to stand trial accused of making a series of bogus mobile phone expense claims when he was a member of the Seanad.

A man who indiscriminately fired two shots from a revolver during disturbances at the Smithfield Horse Fair two years ago has been jailed for five years.

The State has been allowed two weeks to complete the book of evidence in the case of a teenager who allegedly shot two men during rioting at Dublin's Smithfield horse fair in March.

A teenage boy shot two men with an “improvised firearm” and attacked another person with a stick during rioting at Dublin's Smithfield horse fair in March, a court heard today.

A 17-year--old boy, who allegedly shot at two men with an “improvised firearm” during Dublin's Smithfield horse fair last month, may could face additional charges, a judge heard today.

A 17-year-old boy, who allegedly shot at two men with an “improvised firearm” during Dublin's Smithfield horse fair last month, was further remanded in custody today.

A 63-YEAR-OLD man found to have 10 Irish and one British birth certificate, eight false British drivers’ licences and three passports has appeared in court charged with defrauding the Department of Social Protection of almost €250,000 over a four-year period.

A Drogheda resident has been found not guilty of laundering money stolen from a Korean priest two years ago.

A teenage boy, who was found guilty of assaulting a female garda after he began making “rude gestures”, has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence at the Dublin Children’s Court.

The trial of an Louth resident accused of laundering money stolen from a Korean priest has begun in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two men who stole over €27,500 of runners from a Docklands trailer last year will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TWO gardaí at the centre of a controversy in which a video of one of them dealing with a member of the public was posted on YouTube have brought High Court proceedings seeking to stop new disciplinary proceedings against them.

A 28-year-old man arrested last Friday during a raid on a house in Clondalkin has been remanded in custody with consent to bail at the Dublin District Court sitting in Cloverhill.

A MAN was charged yesterday with firearms and drugs offences linked to a weekend Garda operation in Dublin.

A man who beat another man to death with a pickaxe handle has been sentenced to 12 years in jail at the Central Criminal Court.

An inner city Dublin teenager, who a court heard threatened to have a witness shot if he gave evidence against him, has been detained for nine months.

The body of a murdered German tourist was so deeply hidden in dense undergrowth the Garda who discovered it thought it was a roll of old kitchen lino dumped in the bushes, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.