A garda has described how a suspect in a late night sexual assault “zig-zagged” to avoid street lighting while he ran away from the scene.

A man accused of taking part in the gang rape of a pregnant woman in Monaghan apologised to gardaí for having sex with her “against her wishes” but said he did not rape her.

A homeless man, who recklessly stabbed another man with a syringe after a row broke out while he was begging for money is to be sentenced in October at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court .

NINE prisoners were charged yesterday with possession of a mobile phone in jail — the first prosecutions under new laws.