The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a Dublin man's appeal against his conviction for the murder of "the wrong man" at a caravan park on Easter Sunday more than three years ago.

The High Court has granted an order to the HSE allowing anti retro-viral drugs to be administered to the child of an expectant mother with HIV.

An emergency High Court sitting is to hear expert evidence today before deciding whether anti retro-viral drugs are to be administered to the child of an expectant mother with HIV.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a 39-year-old man against his conviction for sexually assaulting his two young daughters.

The jury in the trial of a 73-year-old charged with sexually abusing his children has been told they can return a majority verdict.

A Dublin man accused of murder stabbed the wrong man to death, his barrister told the jury at his trial in the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in a Wexford murder trial at the Central Criminal Court is to be given the 400-page transcript of interviews the gardaí conducted with the accused at the time of the killing.

A Dublin man accused of murdering a 37-year-old Wexford man in a Rosslare caravan park told gardaí he didn’t know who he was stabbing when he lashed out with a knife.

The best friend of a man accused of murder said he saw him "go mad" and stab the 37-year-old victim "for nothing", the Central Criminal Court heard.

The former girlfriend of a Dublin man accused of murder has told a jury that she saw him stab the victim on Easter Sunday morning two years ago in a Wexford caravan park.

A 24-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial for the murder of a Wexford man in a Rosslare caravan park on Easter Sunday morning two years ago.

A GARDA will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to passing a confidential report to a newspaper reporter.

A Mountjoy prisoner who beat his 20-year-old cellmate to death has been found not guilty of his murder, but guilty of his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

A Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate told detectives he killed him with “three digs, three kicks and a stamping” before rubbing excrement in his face.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to try the case of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate.

A Tipperary father-of-one has been found guilty of murdering his ‘best friend’ and neighbour while he slept, because he believed he ‘grassed him up’.

A detective has told the jury in a Tipperary murder trial that the accused admitted the killing to him in a squad car, with the words "I did it".

The trial of a Tipperary man accused of murdering his "best mate" continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury today.

The mother of a Tipperary murder and arson victim listened yesterday in court to a recording of dialogue at the crime scene during the hours of the killing and fire.

The State Pathologist has told the jury in a Tipperary murder and arson trial that the 30-year-old victim died from a single stab wound to the chest, which penetrated the heart.

The jury in a Tipperary murder and arson trial has heard that the 30-year-old victim spent his last day drinking at various locations in his native Clonmel.

A Tipperary man accused of murdering his 30-year-old neighbour and “best mate” told investigating gardaí he was expecting they had found blood or fingerprints when they re-arrested him.

The jury in a Tipperary murder and arson trial has heard that charred debris was found at the home of the accused in the days after the killing.

The economy is in crisis, but services to people with mental illness have been in crisis since the ’80s and the consequences are all around us, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

Two Wexford men who raped a Waterford mother at her home while restraining her with a rope around her neck have been jailed for 14 years by Mr Justice George Bermingham at the Central Criminal Court.

A forensic scientist has told a Central Criminal Court jury that DNA extracted from semen found in an alleged rape victim matched that of the Wexford man accused of the crime.

A Waterford mother who alleges that she was raped in her home by two Wexford men pointed out one of the accused to gardaí in an informal identification parade and said: "I thinks that's him but I am not sure."

A jury has heard that DNA evidence led to the arrest of two Wexford men accused of forcing their way into the home of a Waterford mother and taking turns to rape her as she was restrained by a rope around her neck.

Closing stages have been reached in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father's house after celebrating her 19th birthday.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of rape told the jury in his trial at the Central Criminal Court that he came forward to give evidence on his friend's behalf after reading a newspaper report on the case last week.

A jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father’s house after celebrating her 19th birthday has heard that he denied the allegation during Garda interview.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father's house after celebrating her birthday has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he saw the pair kissing earlier in the night.

A Tipperary woman has denied "kissing or cuddling" with a family friend she accuses of raping her as she slept in her father's house hours after she had been celebrating her 19th birthday.

A young Tipperary woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that a family friend raped her while she slept after celebrating her 19th birthday in the hours beforehand.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a Tipperary man charged with rape.

THE chief executive and chief financial officer of electronic payments firm Payzone secured a High Court injunction last night preventing their removal from the company.

THE Irish Ford Dealers’ Association (IFDA) enlisted members of the public to purchase vehicles from the cartel to see if any of its dealers were undercutting prices set down by the association.

A Donegal publican accepted his signature appears on the second page of a statement purporting to be a confession to the assault of cattle dealer Richie Barron, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

SENIOR gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be punished appropriately, a TD said last night.

Senior gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be be punished appropriately, a TD said tonight.

A REPORT of the investigation into the confession of drug addict Dean Lyons for a murder he did not commit is on schedule for delivery to Justice Minister Michael McDowell next month.

STATE inquires into sexual abuse of children by priests in the Ferns Diocese has cost the State a total of €2.4 million to date.

The gardaí and the Vatican is being accused of failing to act to stop priests abusing young boys and girls in Co Wexford.