A Tallaght man who “snapped” when he found his mother having sex with a man and stabbed him is to be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused a north Dublin businessman leave to appeal against his 10-year sentence for raping a foreign tourist in a Killarney hotel over five years ago.

The mother of the ‘Scissor Sisters’ - who were jailed for killing the man whose headless torso was found in the Royal Canal in Dublin - was jailed for five years at the Central Criminal Court today.

The mother of the notorious 'Scissor Sisters' today broke down sobbing as lawyers pleaded for leniency over her role in covering up the gruesome killing of her African boyfriend.

The Kerry man accused of raping his daughter more than 20 years ago has denied he cannot recall the alleged incident because he had been drinking at a party that night.

A court has heard that an "extremely anticlerical" social worker investigating alleged sexual abuse at a Galway school was eventually taken off the case by the former Western Health Board.

The appeal by convicted Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt against his conviction has opened at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin.

A Lithuanian man on trial for murder was allegedly threatened and attacked by a second man, a convicted criminal in Lithuania, who survived the stabbing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today that he scouted the US/Mexican border as a possible entry point to the United States for the alleged Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt.

A last-minute effort was made to "buy" a not guilty verdict from the foreman of a jury that last month convicted two Tallaght men of handling a stolen car and setting fire to it.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he had discussed setting up an offshore bank off the Florida coast to launder crime money after his businesses in New York state had been seized by a bank because he defaulted on a loan.

A Co Monaghan man arrested by detectives investigating the 1998 Omagh bombing was granted bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A 24-year-old Dublin man received a six-year prison sentence for the manslaughter of a man who was kicked and stamped to death in a vicious row on St Stephen’s Green last April.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement in the preliminary hearing of the alleged Real IRA leader, Michael McKevitt.

The head of gardai intelligence told the Special Criminal Court today that there was a ''a very real and very substantial'' threat to the lives of FBI witness David Rupert and his family because of his involvement in the case of the alleged Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt.

A senior FBI official told the Special Criminal Court today that the FBI had withheld certain documents from the Irish authorities in the case of Michael Mc Kevitt, the alleged leader of the real IRA.

Two senior FBI witnesses from the United States will attend the hearing of preliminary issues in the trial of Michael Mc Kevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Lawyers for Michael McKevitt want American lawyers to investigate the background of the chief prosecution witness against him, FBI agent David Rupert, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.