A man who set up a sophisticated cannabis growing operation in his bedroom worth almost €10,000 after sourcing the seeds online and ordering the equipment from Amazon was trying to treat his back pain, a Court has heard.

A gambler snatched €40,000 of diamond engagement rings from a jewellers in Fermoy, Co Cork.

A woman who alleges she was attacked by a man she met on Tinder did not tell gardaí about eight minutes spent with the man before the alleged attack, a court has heard.

A 19-year-old Slovakian man has appeared in court charged with the dangerous driving causing the death of GAA coach Eugene McNamara.

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertlizer in the van he was driving, has been found guilty of membership of the IRA.

A man who threatened to kill a publican if he gave court evidence against him was sentenced to one year of imprisonment yesterday.

People living near Dundalk may hold vital clues which could bring the killers of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe to justice, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said.

A road rage incident got out of control when a man climbed into the cab of a truck, punched the driver, snatched his phone, and threatened that he would have stabbed him in the throat if he had a knife.

A family has fled their home in Limerick “in fear” for their lives, after a man, armed with a butcher’s knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard.

A family has fled their home in Limerick "in fear" for their lives, after a man, armed with a butchers' knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard writes David Raleigh.

Three elderly people in Kerry are still living in fear after a scam artist, claiming to work for Irish Water, made cash demands on behalf of the utility.

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

A man in dispute with management of Fermoy Mart on the question of whether cattle for sale had horns went on trial yesterday on a charge of assault on a garda at the mart in March last year.

It is every parent’s worst nightmare. A knock on the door in the middle of the night to ask if you are missing a child.

The lorry driver on trial for assault causing harm to a detective at Fermoy Mart said yesterday that he stabbed the guard repeatedly in the hand with the key to his lorry, but only because he believed the officer was trying to get him out “dead or alive”.

A farmer protesting at Fermoy Mart about cattle with horns allegedly being sold to him caught a detective garda, pulled him in through the window of his truck and stabbed his hand with a metal object, it was claimed on the opening day of a trial yesterday.

The Justice Minister will travel to Dundalk today to meet with gardaí following the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

A jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of a double murder in the city two years ago has heard evidence that his fingerprints were found at the scene.

PHOTODYNAMIC therapy given to two terminally ill cancer patients by Paschal Carmody “was merely an excuse to extract large sums of cash from them knowing that the treatment would be of little benefit”.

THE victim in a murder trial was looking for €600 or €700 – possibly for drugs – on the day he disappeared, his mother and father have told the jury.

A Garda has claimed that a man accused of manslaughter admitted that three men got out of his car at the scene of the subsequent killing but he drove off before anything happened because he wanted nothing to do with it.

A young Dublin man denied knowing anything about bomb-making paraphernalia discovered during an armed raid on a Clondalkin apartment, when he was questioned by gardaí, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Someone checked the credit limit on a Clare man’s American Express card from Ireland, while his partner and the Las Vegas poker dealer she is accused of conspiring with to kill him and his two sons were both out of the country, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Dublin teenager was today remanded in custody after a court was told he threatened to have his mother and Gardaí shot.

A GARDA who had been following a car which crashed, killing two young people in Dundalk, Co Louth, has told an inquest that he had stopped the pursuit just before the collision and denied he had been waiting “ready to pounce” on the vehicle.

A young girl lied to gardaí and a judge about her name age and address following her arrest for a trespassing offence, a court has heard.

A young girl believed to be 13-years-old has been remanded in custody for her own safety to allow an investigation into her identity to be carried out following her arrest for a trespassing offence.

A 41-year-old Scottish man was sentenced to life for the murder of an English new-age traveller five years ago at the Central Criminal Court today.

A heroin addict who threw a bag of stolen goods into his neighbour’s garden during a Garda raid was today given a three-year suspended sentence for burglary.

LIMERICK gardaí yesterday made a renewed appeal for help with an unsolved murder as it was revealed the murder detection rate in Limerick is above 90%.

A Bus Atha Cliath driver who fatally knocked down a mother of three after his vision was impaired by strong sunlight has been given a six months suspended sentence.

A hit-and-run taxi driver who broke a red light and knocked down a five-year-old boy crossing the road has been ordered to pay a €1,000 fine or serve a one year prison sentence.