A sacked garda who passed on confidential information and illegally held a shotgun has been ordered to carry out community service in lieu of jail.

A sacked garda who passed on confidential information and illegally held a single barrel shot gun in his Meath home has been ordered to carry out community service in lieu of a jail term.

A man who hid 66 pellets of cocaine internally in his body to smuggle them into Ireland has been jailed for three years.

A doctor has been returned for trial after he was charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of indecent assault on three separate women.

The Shane Geoghegan murder trial has today heard that the apparent intended target lived four doors away from the rugby player on the night he was shot, in a case of mistaken identity.

A young man who rammed a pursuing garda patrol car in a stolen jeep after colliding with a van while driving through Baldoyle at high speed has received a six year sentence with three years suspended.

A 21-year-old Dublin man has been given a five-year sentence for having sex with his underage cousin and sexually abusing her and her younger sister at their granny’s house.

A former drug addict who punched his former girlfriend "30 to 40 times" in the face because he believed she was texting another man has been given a five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A heavily pregnant woman has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for robbing a young woman as she walked home from a night out last year.

A Cork woman has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of killing her daughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Cork woman accused of killing her daughter suffers from paranoid schizophrenia with very fixed delusions, the Central Criminal Court heard today

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.

A man who was driving for only three weeks when his vehicle overturned at a speed of 134kph on the M50 has been given a suspended sentence for dangerous driving causing a female friend’s death.

A Lithuanian man has been acquitted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of killing a compatriot by stabbing him after they spent the day drinking and playing chess.

Wicklow actor Darren Healy has been given more time to gather compensation for the victim who developed a blood clot on his brain after hitting his head following a "standard punch up" with him in a pub.

A father of one whose getaway car was pushed into a ditch by a garda after a foiled Enniskerry robbery has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A man described by gardaí as "the gentleman of the group" has been given an 18-month sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan for his role in the 'Love Ulster' parade riot in Dublin city centre last year.

A 52-year-old Irish Army corporal who had sex with a 16-year-old school girl has been jailed for 18 months by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for unlawful carnal knowledge and possession of sexually explicit images of the girl.

A man witnessed flashes of light and a car screeching away as a father-of-ten was gunned down on a Dublin street corner, an inquest heard today.

A garda has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that he was not aware of any garda coming to his assistance when a protester had him by the neck at the "Reclaim the Streets" protest in 2002.

A Dublin man has been given early release from his 10-year sentence for raping a woman whom he dragged into bushes and subjected to almost seven hours of violent sexual molesting in 1996.