A man who started a fire in an office at the Chief State Solicitors Office in 2005 for no apparent reason has been given a three-year sentence.

A drug addict who was caught by gardaí after he took a photograph of himself on a phone which he then left behind in the house he had just burgled has been sentenced to seven years with the final three suspended.

A drug dealer who stabbed his wife in the throat during a “three-day bender” has been sentenced to three years in prison.

A man who dragged a garda along with his car after refusing to stop for him has been jailed for two and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 21-year-old man told gardaí that after a lifetime of being beaten by his father, he finally flipped and killed him with a spade, the Central Criminal Court heard.

A CRACK Garda marksman has lost a €38,000 damages claim against the state for injuries he suffered while honing his gun skills at a remote mountainous shooting range.

A Donegal man has been jailed for four and half years for having sex with his sister when she was between 12 and 14 years old and sexually assaulting her in their family home over 16 years ago.

A Donegal man has been remanded in custody pending sentence after he admitted to having sex with his sister when she was between 12 and 14 years old and to sexually assaulting her in their family home over 16 years ago.

A Spanish footballer who smuggled cocaine into Ireland in his runners has been jailed for three and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Romanian men who sexually assaulted a Tipperary woman have been jailed for five years by Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy at the Central Criminal Court.

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given an 18-month suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan.

Two Dublin men whose assault on a Norwegian tourist has left him with severe head injuries and a serious speech impediment have been jailed for terms of seven and six years by Judge Katherine Delahunt today.

Two thugs whose horrific assault on a Norwegian tourist has left him with severe head injuries and a serious speech impediment have been jailed for terms of seven and six years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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 Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given time to allow him compensate his 14 victims before he is sentenced.

The jury in the trial of a bus driver accused of dangerous driving causing the deaths of five people in Dublin city centre three years ago has heard there were no marks to indicate emergency braking either before or after impact at the scene.