A convicted rapist and kidnapper who fled during his trial six years ago is to be sentenced next month after being found in England.

A jury in a murder trial has today been shown video footage of a prosecution witness taking an oath swearing that her statement to gardaí implicating the accused is the truth.

The trial of a man accused of raping his 65-year-old mother on the night of Mother’s Day three years ago has opened at the Central Criminal Court.

A Nigerian man has been convicted of raping a young woman in a Dublin apartment after a night out almost two years ago.

A Co Louth man who was convicted of IRA membership is on hunger strike in Portlaoise Prison, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A Donegal man who had sex with a 14-year-old girl has been given a ten year sentence at the Central Criminal Court.

A Waterford man has been jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court for raping and sexually assaulting a girl from when she was nine.

A national teacher who was jailed previously for sexual offences on pupils has been given a three year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Carney for indecently assaulting another female pupil 26 years ago.

A Waterford woman broke down in tears while telling the Central Criminal Court that the man on trial raped her as a school girl and told her "this is our secret".

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in appeal brought by a serial rapist against the life sentence he received for sexually attacked a woman just five months after his release from prison for a previous assault.

A Dublin man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of a 49 year-old mother of two.

A man accused of murdering a woman with a lump hammer after she bit his penis, wrapped her body up in bedclothes and left it outside his flat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A serial rapist who sexually attacked a woman just five months after his release in 2004 from a 10-year rape sentence has been jailed for life by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court today.

The trial of a South African man accused of murdering his Irish-born wife heard that the accused told another man that he was going to kill his wife days before she was found dead at their home.

A garda has been given a one-month suspended sentence for assaulting a school teacher in the 2002 May Day "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration, in Dublin city centre.

An expert witness told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Paul Daly hit a protester with his baton on the junction of Parliament St and Dame St during the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May Day 2002.

An alleged confession made by a Galway traveller who was "liable to making false confessions" was the only piece of evidence in the murder case against him, a defence counsel told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 30 year-old Galway man accused of murdering his cousin was “a very vulnerable person” with a mild to moderate mental handicap, a defence witness told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A traveller accused of murder told gardaí he was forced to drive the getaway car for two gunmen against his will, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A traveller who was murdered in his bed during a dawn raid on his caravan by two men wearing balaclavas, died from two close-range gunshot wounds to his chest, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A jury in the trial of a 38-year-old Limerick man accused of murder by stabbing is expected to retire to consider a verdict on Tuesday next.

A 38-year-old Limerick man went on trial in the Central Criminal Court today for the murder of another man who died after being stabbed and cut 63 times.

A Mountjoy prisoner on trial for murder has told a jury he was angry and bitter at "the system" when he stabbed his cellmate in the chest as he lay sleeping in bed.