An IT worker and father of three has received a non-custodial sentence for sexually assaulting his niece 24 years ago.

A father has been given a six-year sentence for “heinous” sexual abuse of three of his children.

Two brothers have each been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years imprisonment, with four years suspended, for “a brutal, vicious, and degrading” attack on their uncle which left him “at death’s door” but which had no apparent motive.

A man who took part in the violent robbery of a 67-year-old Waterford farmer who was visiting Dublin City has avoided a jail sentence.

The absence of “really important” evidence from a witness was a massive piece of the jigsaw that was missing in an assault case, a court heard yesterday.

A 49-year-old man who received “devastating” injuries in a fight at his home yesterday told a jury that he had no memory of the incident almost four years ago.

The Circuit Criminal Court, in Tralee, has been told that Gerald Fitzgerald sustained brain, liver, and rib injuries and had a sharp object put into his back passage causing injury to his rectum and bladder during the fight. He was left lying in an unconscious and bloodied state.

One of two brothers charged with assaulting an uncle phoned another uncle on the night of the alleged incident to say he was “after having it” with the injured party, a court heard yesterday.

When Mr Justice Gerard Hogan delivered his judgment, he opened the proverbial can of worms.

A man has received a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for the one punch manslaughter of another man in the city last year.

Two Dublin friends have avoided going to jail after they admitted taking part in a pub brawl which ended in a man losing his eye.

A catering manager at Croke Park has avoided jail today after he stole €15,000 worth of food and drink from his employers.

A Waterford man accused of IRA membership and having three improvised mortar launch tubes at his home in 2011 has walked free from court after the collapse of his trial.

A Wexford man has been jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin this morning for the possession of a magnum revolver and ammunition.

A young Dublin man who called in hoax bomb scares in Rathmines for “a laugh” has received a three-year sentence for these offences and a robbery.

A MAN accused of threatening to stab an RTÉ journalist outside his home has had all charges against him dropped by the state.

A Dublin plumber has been given a four-year sentence after being caught money laundering for a criminal gang.

An alcoholic who forced a student out of her car and threatened to kill her if she did not hand over the keys has received a four-and-a-half-year sentence for this and a bookies robbery.

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 give a chance to avoid prison by coming up with compensation and getting into a college course..

A convicted fraudster who “duped” two men and a garda into buying stolen cars from him has been sentenced to three years consecutive to a four-year term he is already serving for a similar crime.

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.

A County Westmeath woman has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she watched her three-year-old sister being raped by her father as there was nothing she could do to stop it because she was afraid of him.

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

A Tipperary woman has denied "kissing or cuddling" with a family friend she accuses of raping her as she slept in her father's house hours after she had been celebrating her 19th birthday.

A deaf man has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of sexually assaulting his partner's friend after she had been celebrating New Year's Eve in the couple's home.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that a Tipperary man raped a young woman who had fallen asleep fully clothed on a bed after celebrating her 19th birthday with him and other friends.

A 31-year-old Co Wicklow man who orally raped and sexually assaulted a young boy has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Wexford teenager accused of raping a Wicklow schoolgirl at the Arklow "Sea Breeze" festival in July 2004.

A man who was twice hospitalised following serious collisions has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.