A detective garda has revealed she couldn’t trace social workers, counsellors or doctors who dealt with a woman alleging her brother raped her 40 years ago.

A security guard has been given a one-year suspended sentence for sexually assaulting an Italian woman after he posed as a bouncer and insisted on taking her home because she had too much to drink.

A MOTORIST banned from driving after cocaine was found in a blood sample had his conviction overturned yesterday because there had been a four-month delay in analysing the sample due to staff shortages.

A stage hand has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for collecting takings from prostitutes working in a city centre brothel two years ago.