A 16-year-old boy who raped a 15-year-old girl at a teenage house party in Dublin last year has been sentenced to six years detention with the final three years suspended.

A Wicklow resident who was paid €60 to hold nearly half a million euro worth of heroin has been sentenced to seven years in jail, with three suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A man who was jailed three years ago for terrorising his neighbours in a drunken early morning attack while wearing only his boxer shorts and assaulted a garda has had a suspended sentence partly re-activated.

A Dublin alcoholic who suspected a member of his AA group to be a paedophile will be sentenced later for possessing a knife with intent to intimidate.

A Lucan woman who slashed another woman’s face and breast with a broken bottle in an unprovoked attack, leaving her victim with permanent scarring, is to be sentenced next month.

A jury at the trial of a Clondalkin man accused of pointing a loaded gun at gardaí has heard that the weapon allegedly recovered from him was “cocked, ready for use” and had its serial number erased.

A drug addict who shot a bouncer in the face before assaulting two arresting gardaí has been jailed for 13 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

A drug addict who shot a bouncer in the face before assaulting two arresting gardaí faces up to life imprisonment when he is sentenced later this month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 20-year-old South Dublin man who killed his friend with a single stab wound has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court.

A 20 year-old South Dublin man who killed his friend with a single stab wound in a row between the two will be sentenced by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning.

A young Cavan man accused of murdering his father told gardaí: “I always had it in my head growing up to kill somebody”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man has denied in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he threw missiles at gardaí during the Love Ulster parade riots in the city centre two years ago.

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital told gardaí that she had given one of them an intra muscular injection of Serenase which she claimed had been prescribed for him.

The prosecution in the trial of a man arrested when gardaí found a handgun hidden inside a van in north Dublin in June last year, has claimed he was wearing a tee-shirt with ‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’ written on it at the time.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man has been remanded in custody after he appeared before Waterford District Court yesterday charged in connection with a fatal assault on another man in the city on the eve of St Patrick’s Day.