A judge has refused to issue a summons to force the Bahraini attorney general, who is in Ireland this week, to appear in a court in Dublin on charges of aiding and abetting torture.

A tanning salon operator has been granted bail after he was charged over a seizure of cocaine at a north Dublin apartment.

A judge has granted a two- year care order to the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, for a one-year-old girl who tested positive for opiates at birth.

A Limerick man has offered no objection to forfeiting €44,000 which a judge ruled was the proceeds of crime or was intended for use in criminal conduct.

A judge has granted gardaí an extra 72 hours to hold a man who is being questioned in connection with the murder of David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel.

A man arrested in a Dublin apartment, a property believed by gardaí to be linked to the “Kinahan organised crime gang”, has brought a High Court challenge to the legality of his detention following a refusal of bail.

A teenage boy looked up online how he could remove a cast from his arm after his abusive mother refused to accept that his injury was serious.

A man told his ‘hysterical’ 13-year-old nephew after he had pummelled the boy’s father he was sorry that he had to see it, “but the fat pig bastard had it coming to him”.

A man was caught with a cannabis growhouse in his apartment after gardaí on patrol smelled the odour that was being carried onto a city centre street through a makeshift air duct.

Love/Hate actor Stephen Clinch has been granted bail pending his trial over a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin city centre.

A man has been jailed for sending “grossly threatening” text messages to his ex-girlfriend after she started seeing someone else.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with a blaze which went out of control and gutted six terraced houses in Kildare.

A father and son testified against each other in an assault case at Cork District Court yesterday where allegations and counter-allegations were made as the judge said she was sorry it had come to this.

An 86-year-old man was kicked in the leg on a street in Cork by a much younger man who shouted obscenities at him.

A man used a knuckleduster as he punched another man repeatedly in the face during an attack in Cork City.

A 19-year-old American student had her skull fractured by a man who walked up behind her and swung a two-foot machete at her head before robbing her.

Actor David Murray is set to "strongly" contest an allegation that he assaulted a woman in Dublin last year, a judge heard yesterday.

A judge has extended strict bail conditions ordering that an Ennis man stay off dating websites such as smooch.com and plentyoffish.com.

Two Dublin-based gardaí were last night cleared of assault charges at Limerick District Court.

A 19-year-old has told a court he was assaulted by two off-duty gardaí who were looking for prostitutes during a Christmas night out in Limerick.

A judge has thrown out a Revenue prosecution brought against a company owned by TD Michael Lowry because a court summons was served at an out-of-date address.

Two Dublin men who were part of a riot during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland in 2011 will be sentenced in March.

CAB has secured orders freezing about £120,000 (€140,000) in a woman’s Irish bank account after a judge accepted “candid” evidence from her ex-husband the cash came from his criminal activities centred on theft of motor vehicles in Ireland and the UK.

A man is to be sentenced next Tuesday for threatening a barrister at the Four Courts complex in Dublin last year.

A 33-year-old Dublin man who is charged with the 2007 murder of a man in the city was today refused bail in the High Court by Mr Justice Barry White.

A murder suspect, who was refused compassionate bail to attend his grandfather’s funeral this weekend, was unable to tell the High Court todday what his dead relative’s address was.

NIALL FITZGERALD enhanced his men’s singles title credentials when he gunned down former Wimbledon participant Edward Seator in the National Indoor tennis Championship quarter-finals at David Lloyd Riverview last night.

A teenage girl, who took part in a violent gang mugging of a young Chinese woman, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A 17-year-old boy, who allegedly had €45,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis hidden in a pram shed at his home, has been returned for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court where he could face a possible ten-year sentence.

A "MUM RIP" tattoo has led to a three years consecutive sentence for a man who robbed two taxi drivers.

A 17-year-old boy, who allegedly had €45,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a pram shed at his home, could face a 10-year sentence the Dublin Children’s Court heard today.

An alcoholic courier drug addict who tried to slit his throat after being arrested for importing cocaine valued over €200,000 has been given a six and a half year sentence.

A 17-year-old girl burgled a house with her father and brother and then acted as the getaway driver, a court heard today.

THE Government is to fund the only network of rape crisis centres in Sierra Leone.

The Irish Government is to fund the only network of rape crisis centres in Sierra Leone.

A youth, who is awaiting sentence for an attempted car theft which led to the death of a man, had his bail revoked today.