A teenager celebrated like a football player after chasing a homeless man through Cork city before kicking and stamping him on the head, it was claimed yesterday.

A man who tried to rob a shop armed with a knife has been denied bail.

A 14-year-old boy appeared in court today charged in connection with a fire that extensively damaged a Gaelscoil in Lucan, in Dublin, last April.

GARDA Brian Kelleher was proud of two things: his family and his uniform, colleagues said yesterday.

A man who subjected a female student to more than hour of horrific sexual and physical assault near her south Dublin home in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

People who fell foul of garda dogs faced “ruff justice” in the 1960s.

A Limerick teenager has been remanded in custody after a court in Dublin heard he was scared he would be shot if he returned home.

A man who fired five times at a patrol car with a shotgun before pointing it directly at a plain clothes garda has been jailed for four years.