Three Waterford men arrested last September after a garda investigation in to the activities of dissident republicans are due to stand trial separately at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin next spring.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a Louth man accused of membership of the IRA has become the first trial to collapse following a recent Supreme Court ruling on a key piece of anti-terrorist legislation.

A judge today criticised the cost of bringing a charge of having a mobile phone in court against convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan.

The trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances has heard evidence from detectives who placed the pair under surveillance as part of a garda operation on the suspected manufacture of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices by the IRA.

A Wexford man who constructed a timer for an explosive device months after gardaí uncovered a huge cache of explosive components in a shed at his parent’s home has been jailed for 12 years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A young Cork man who caused the death of a neighbour whilst driving drunk has succeeded in having his 20-year driving-ban halved on appeal.

A young man accused of dangerous driving causing death has today denied in evidence that he colluded with his friends when giving a statement to gardaí.

A man who regularly sexually abused his young niece after calling her his “special girl” has been sentenced to eight years at the Central Criminal Court.

A dangerous-driving-causing-death trial has heard gardaí believed two friends of the accused had possibly “concocted” their stories because their statements were so similar.

A witness has today described to a jury how he saw his late friend dragged under a limousine and been pinned against the back wheel.

A 21-year-old has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in connection with the death of a man who was dragged under a limousine in the early hours of the morning.

A man who was one of a group of three that slashed 128 tyres because of “some sort of complaint they had about capitalism” has been given a suspended sentence.

A Dublin man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for possessing a pipe bomb at a filling station in Co Waterford last year.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement in the trial of Dublin man charged with possessing a pipe bomb at a filling station in Co Waterford last year.

A man accused of threatening to stab RTE journalist Fergal Keane outside his home has had all charges against him dropped by the State.

A Dublin plumber faces up to 14 years imprisonment after being caught money laundering for a criminal gang.

A court has heard how a Kildare man who pleaded not guilty to membership of an illegal organisation made a number of statements attesting to his membership of the IRA while in garda custody.

A Clondalkin man who was caught walking through a park with almost €200,000 worth of heroin in his backpack has been jailed for eight years.

A man who was so frustrated with juvenile delinquency in his neighbourhood that he tried to scare off some youths with a chainsaw has been ordered to carry out work in the community in lieu of a jail sentence.

The Special Criminal Court has heard that items regularly used to make pipe-bombs were discovered at the home of a man on trial for membership of an unlawful organisation.

A Longford resident has been given a five-year sentence for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family.

A Longford resident is to be sentenced later this week for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family last year.

A 70-year-old Bray resident has gone on trial for assaulting his elderly female housemate with a hammer causing her serious harm.

A Longford resident accused of having sex with his wife’s niece told gardai that he considered the girl a daughter after she was given to him on his wedding day to raise as his own child.

A social care worker who punched a man in the face following an early morning argument about queue jumping at a taxi rank has been given a suspended sentence.

A cocaine-addicted father-of-one who robbed a bookmaker's armed with a small samurai sword has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A deaf man who sexually assaulted his partner's friend after a New Year's Eve party in the couple's home has been given a seven-year prison sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that DNA matching a taxi driver who was fatally stabbed in Blanchardstown last year was found on the clothes of a man and a woman accused of murdering him.

A man accused of murdering a taxi driver last year by stabbing him more than 40 times in a frenzied attack told gardaí that the deceased had pulled out a gun before he stabbed him in the neck in a row over drug money.

A Westmeath man has been acquitted at the Central Criminal Court of 10 counts of raping and sexually abusing his two daughters and raping his younger brother-in-law over an eight-year period.

The man accused of raping his two daughters and his younger brother-in-law has denied he "interfered" with any child in his life.

Two Wexford men who raped a Waterford mother at her home while restraining her with a rope around her neck have been jailed for 14 years by Mr Justice George Bermingham at the Central Criminal Court.

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

A drug addict who hijacked a woman's car at gunpoint and refused to allow her take her handbag from it before he drove off, has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Wicklow actor has to present himself in January to begin a four-year sentence for an assault on a victim who developed a blood clot on his brain after hitting his head and subsequently died.

Closing stages have been reached in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father's house after celebrating her 19th birthday.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of rape told the jury in his trial at the Central Criminal Court that he came forward to give evidence on his friend's behalf after reading a newspaper report on the case last week.

A jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father’s house after celebrating her 19th birthday has heard that he denied the allegation during Garda interview.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father's house after celebrating her birthday has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he saw the pair kissing earlier in the night.

A young Tipperary woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that a family friend raped her while she slept after celebrating her 19th birthday in the hours beforehand.

A Dublin city-centre man who drove a stolen high-powered motorbike while wearing a pair of shorts and a t-shirt has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for dangerous driving.

A Ballyfermot man who was arrested after gardai heard he was bragging to his friends about his involvement in the 'Love Ulster' riots has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A South African mother-of-four who claims her eldest child resulted from being raped when she was 16 has walked away from Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with a suspended sentence for importing cannabis.

A mother who is serving a ten-year sentence has forfeited €60,000 to the State as the proceeds of drug dealing.