A Dublin man who bought the car that was later used in the fatal shooting of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of IRA membership.

The fingerprint of a man accused of IRA membership was found on the registration certificate of the car used in the fatal shooting of Northern Irish prison officer David Black, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of IRA membership has heard a day of legal argument.

The Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission must apply to the High Court for transcripts relating to appearances before the Special Criminal Court of Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot dead Garda Anthony Golden in 2015 before killing himself.

A Limerick man has been found guilty today at the non-jury Special Criminal Court of assaulting another man.

A man has been charged with knowingly possessing four kilograms of TNT in central Dublin, while another man has been charged with IRA membership, at a bank-holiday Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court.

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertilizer in the van he was driving has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for IRA membership.

Permanent TSB has told a couple they must accept the bank’s “derisory” €6,000 offer of compensation before it will repay €61,000 it overcharged them on their mortgage, the High Court heard Friday.

A family of five suffered a traumatic ordeal on a Sunday morning when a drunken businessman home from New York banged on their door at 11.30am and demanding drugs and sex.

John Gilligan has obtained a High Court order preventing the Judge from hearing the convicted drug dealer's appeal against his conviction for having a mobile phone in his cell from proceeding to sentencing him, should his conviction be upheld.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody to appear in court again next week in connection with the murder of Jason Ryan in Wexford three months ago.

A JAILHOUSE rock mobile-phone ring tone yesterday nearly led to an Elvis fan getting a sample of the real thing.

JOHN GILLIGAN has been found guilty of possessing a mobile phone in his Portlaoise Prison cell at a sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

THE parents of a 15-year-old girl have been given a suspended prison sentence for failing to send their teenage daughter to school.

THE country’s most senior road safety advocate has described as “murderous” the behaviour of parents who don’t have their children properly strapped into cars.

A NURSING home may be forced to close after an emergency district court hearing was informed of serious concerns over the safety of residents.

JAILED drug dealer John Gilligan will have to face the outcome of a charge of unlawfully having had a mobile phone in his prison cell, a High Court judge decided yesterday.

A MAN was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment yesterday for the assault of a District Court judge in Waterford city 18 months ago.

A FORMER Co Waterford town councillor, who arrived in Ireland for a wedding over the weekend, was arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption charges.

JOHN Gilligan had a mobile phone and a SIM card in his prison cell when it was searched by gardaí, a court heard yesterday.

Convicted drugs baron John Gilligan appeared in court today charged with having a mobile phone in Ireland’s maximum security prison.

The case of three teenagers arrested over a gang attack on a man, which was described as an act of “gratuitous violence,” was too serious to be heard in the Children’s Court, a judge ruled today.

A 16-year-old boy charged with possessing a stolen laptop computer and credit card has been released on bail by the Dublin Children’s Court.

A teenager, who allegedly mugged a student at knife-point and stabbed him three times for his mobile phone, has been sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A suicidal 14-year-old boy, who claimed he tried to kill himself in a garda station cell at the weekend, has been remanded in custody by Judge Gerard Haughton at the Dublin Children’s Court.

A teenage boy, who allegedly smashed a glass bottle over a refugee’s face then had friends attack him again and threaten him not to give evidence, has been remanded in custody.

TWO men who were caught on video as they emptied a street parking ticket machine of €250 were jailed yesterday.

Two men arrested during May Day security operations had their cases adjourned today at Dublin District Court due to a shortage of judges.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sold a house and 150 acres of land belonging to the man said to have brought foot-and-mouth disease to Ireland two years ago when he smuggled infected sheep into the country.

ADDICTS have found Drug Court programmes so tough they have pleaded to be allowed quit and go to jail instead.

THE last year is the longest period of time Jason has been out of prison in the last 25 years.

A group of reformed drug addicts was today graduating from a drugs rehabilitation scheme at a special court sitting in Dublin.

A GRANNY accused of supplying methadone from her home was yesterday told she had to prove she was keeping the drugs for someone lawfully entitled to them.

A former garda presenter on RTE’s Crimeline programme has abandoned his bid to overturn a conviction of having solicited sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Limerick brothel.