"Jack the fucking Ripper" was the name a man gave to gardaí who investigated a disturbance he caused at a hospital emergency department.

A truck driver’s decision to pass a cyclist on a bad stretch of road, at a time when he knew his lorry was in bad condition, beggared belief, a judge said yesterday.

A married couple from Kildare who allowed their rented home to be used as a brothel have been spared jail after a judge suspended their sentences.

A drunken man who caused a disturbance outside a hospital emergency department would only give his name to investigating gardaí as "Jack the fucking Ripper".

Gardaí found more than 13,000 rounds of ammunition and a rifle that had been modified to fire like a machine gun, when they searched a man’s home in Co Limerick, a court heard yesterday.

A young man had such a quantity of anti-depressants, relaxants and alcohol that he could not remember breaking into a café at Blackrock village in Cork in the early hours of the morning.

A middle-aged man who was upset about texts he was getting from a younger relative made two attempts to burn down the apartment building where the relative was living.

A drink-driving case was dramatically dismissed against a two-time All Star hurler last night after his uncle admitted giving him whiskey after the sports star had knocked down a pedestrian.

A cake decorating expert gave evidence to gardaí about 16 bags of icing sugar found in a car driven by a Louth man accused of membership of the IRA, his Special Criminal Court trial has heard.

A man who claimed a neighbour of his parents came into their garden and attacked him with a hurley, told a judge “it was like something out of Braveheart”.

A JUDGE has told a district court he should be entitled to hang a €100 note from his front gate and come back in a month and still find it there.

A nervous robber who handed himself in but then fell back into crime while on bail by transporting firearms to pay off a drug debt has been given an eight year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A CRASH in which a 22-year-old Co Cork man died after his car collided with a Garda patrol car, near Killarney, on September 24 last, was described at an inquest in Co Kerry yesterday.

A 20-year-old man who died after falling unconscious in a Garda station cell had been arrested after being spotted in a stolen car, an inquest heard today.