THE case of a man charged with assaulting an English motorist, who died after an alleged road rage attack in Dublin last September, has been upgraded to murder.

The case of a man charged with assaulting an English motorist, who died after an alleged road rage attack in Dublin last September, has been upgraded to murder.

A 56-year-old Dublin man has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a babysitter.

Dublin criminal Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh who is currently serving a ten-year sentence for rape has received a further three years in prison for simulating sex on a seven-year-old girl over twenty years ago.

A 24-year-old man on trial for the murder of his sister’s partner told gardaí he only stabbed him twice in self-defence but did not kill him the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 73-year-old father who repeatedly raped his young daughters and sexually abused his son has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court today.

A father accused of sexually abusing his three children told gardaí that he had written a letter purporting to admit molesting his daughters but said the allegations were made so the children could get home from care.

A school caretaker who stored drugs in a safe at work will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father-of-two has been sentenced to four years with 18 months suspended for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

The son of "a particularly vicious man" has been given 11 years in consecutive sentences for possession of cocaine and cannabis and then having control of a gun a year later while on bail.

Three young men who attacked gardaí with a sword and a car battery and bit, kicked and punched them to try and obstruct an arrest have been sentenced to two and three year prison terms by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Lithuanian man who had no recollection of mugging former television presenter, Anna Nolan, has received a three year suspended sentence from Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Sex offenders weren't allowed a chance of rehabilitation by society "whipped on by the tabloid media", Mr Justice Paul Carney said when he jailed a man for seven years for orally raping his stepdaughter.

A 15-year-old boy appeared in court today charged with the rape and robbery of a woman in Dun Laoghaire, on Monday.