A woman charged with murdering her colleague by driving him into a harbour, where he drowned, told a paramedic that “he shouldn’t have been there. I drove the car into the water,” her trial has heard.

A Limerick man who successfully appealed against his conviction for the murder of his partner yesterday pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

The nephew of a 37-year-old woman whose body was discovered in a bog outside Athlone, Co Westmeath, four years ago has said his “much-loved” aunt was killed by a person who had placed “no value” on her life and had “no respect for the dignity of her body.”

A Supreme Court judge has said it is “dispiriting”, despite difficulties with the defence of provocation in Irish law being identified several times over at least 15 years, there has been no “legislative response”.

The jury has been hearing closing speeches in the trial of a retired member of the defence forces accused of murdering a prostitute.

The prosecution has finished calling evidence in the trial of a retired army private accused of murdering a prostitute who he claimed blackmailed him for up to €40,000.

DNA on a knife found in the car of a retired member of the defence forces matched that of a prostitute he is accused of murdering in Co Westmeath four years ago, a jury has heard.

State claims former soldier killed woman in a bog four years ago because she was blackmailing him

Three teenagers have been jailed for an aggravated burglary during which threats were made to rape a woman and to cut off her son’s fingers with a meat cleaver.

A Wicklow man jailed for killing his ex-fiancée's three-and-a-half-month-old baby has brought an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.

A man has been sentenced to five years for setting fire to the bed in his partner and children’s apartment before escaping out the window.

Convicted murderer Nathan Killeen will not stand trial for the 2008 murder of James Cronin after the State entered a nolle prosequi — a decision not to proceed — on the charge yesterday.

A father of two who transported almost €34,000 worth of cocaine and 249 rounds of viable ammunition almost six years ago has been jailed for four years.

The trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly has heard a former co-accused "wanted no more to do with" the case when he gave evidence.

Firearms residue found on the tracksuit bottoms of one of the men accused of murdering a Limerick businessman supports the suggestion that he was at the shooting, his trial has heard.

A garda has told the Roy Collins murder trial that he pointed a gun at one of the accused men when he found him hiding under insulation in an attic after the murder.

Two men due to stand trial on a charge of murdering businessman Roy Collins five years ago are seeking recordings of communications between garda stations and prisons, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

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 garda has told a jury he could not identify himself in CCTV footage recorded outside the home of a father and son accused of threatening to have his colleague shot.

A WOMAN has been convicted of dangerous driving causing the death of her nephew and niece two years ago.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a 47-year-old man appealing against his conviction and sentence for having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl.

The killer of two Polish men has today told his murder trial that he stabbed the mechanics in their front garden because one of them shouted at them and he thought they had stabbed his father.

A West Dublin teenager who was found in possession of €150,000 worth of heroin has been sentenced to seven years' detention by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An English truck driver who attempted to import LSD valued at more than €600,000 through Dublin Port strapped to his body has been given an 11-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Louth man told a close friend that he had cut another man's throat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A forensic witness in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Co Louth man accused of stabbing another man in the neck with a shard of glass has said that blood-stained clothing belonging to the accused could have been consistent with him checking the victim's pulse.

A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.

A hospital care assistant has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that she saw a nurse on trial for allegedly poisoning patients "quite forcefully and quite roughly" give an injection to an elderly patient.

A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq following the outbreak of war in 2003.

One of the five protestors charged with damaging a US aircraft at Shannon Airport has told the jury that "acting on the philosophies of Isaiah rather than pissing off George Bush" was the motivation behind their actions.

IRISH lawyers have rebuffed George Bush’s attempts to exonerate himself personally over the maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners.

SENIOR clergymen and 172 lawyers yesterday called for peaceful protest during US President George W Bush’s visit next weekend.

A group of 170 solicitors and barristers has added its voice to the campaign against the impending visit of US President George W Bush.