Three Supreme Court judges will meet next week to consider whether to hear a "leapfrog" appeal by the State against an important ruling in favour of convicted murderer Graham Dwyer.

The Supreme Court, by a three to two majority, has rejected claims by a former school teacher it would be unconstitutional to permit his prosecution for alleged offences of gross indecency against a male pupil between 1978-80 when the boy was aged between 15 and 17 years.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the extradition to the United States of Eric Eoin Marques a man accused of being the world's biggest facilitator of child porn.

A rapist jailed for 12 years who successfully challenged the constitutionality of a law stopping payment of the State's old age pension to prisoners is entitled to €10,000 in damages, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a man over a decision to increase from 15 to 19 years his sentence for the rape and sexual assault of a woman whose child he abducted in the same incident.

A Nigerian mother and her Irish-born son, who has a severe form of sickle cell disease, a blood disorder, have lost their Supreme Court appeal over being refused permission to challenge orders for their deportation.

A seven judge Supreme Court will hear separate appeals this month by former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and businessman Denis O’Brien.

The Supreme Court has upheld an order requiring developer Gerry Gannon to pay an investment company €320,667 damages over his failure to complete the purchase of a lease for a building next door to his Dublin 4 headquarters.

A man faces a retrial for careless driving causing the death of a road worker.

Media organisations should get a benefit from the first Court of Appeal decision in relation to the "offer of amends" provision in the 2009 Defamation Act, a judge has said.

Notorious Limerick criminal Wayne Dundon has opened an appeal against his conviction for the murder of innocent businessman Roy Collins in Limerick eight years ago.

Two Limerick criminals have been sentenced to life in prison for the revenge murder of innocent businessman Roy Collins in the city over five years ago.

Wayne Dundon and Nathan Killeen have been found guilty in their non-jury trial of murdering Roy Collins in Limerick in 2009.

Charges against a Galway man who pleaded guilty to raping his niece have been withdrawn after the girl later admitted she was lying.

A 51-year-old Kildare man serving life for murdering his ex partner has today been given a three-year jail sentence for stabbing her new boyfriend.

A 46-year-old chef who falsely imprisoned, raped and orally raped a woman he met in a nightclub in Co Westmeath has been jailed for eight years.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing his sister 40 years ago have heard the man “vehemently” denied the allegations when interviewed by gardaí.

A Wicklow man serving a life sentence for murder has been handed down a 10-year sentence for possessing the gun he used to murder a Dublin man in front of his partner and son.

A 51-year-old Kildare man has been convicted of murdering his ex partner.

A verdict is expected today in the trial of a 51-year-old Kildare man accused of murdering his ex partner.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest did not show any symptoms of suffering from Bipolar disorder, a mental illness, a forensic psychiatrist has told a Central Criminal Court jury.

A jury in a trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-partner has heard evidence of phone records between the victim's mobile phone and the accused's mobile phone.

A Central Criminal Court jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a 34-year-old Wicklow man charged with murdering a young Dubliner.

A 34-year-old Wicklow man accused of murder has denied returning to the crime scene to look for a phone dropped during the shooting.

A young Dublin boy told gardaí investigating a murder that he saw a man shoot another man in his back while the child was out playing with friends.

Cross examination has been continuing at a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court of a detective dealing with CCTV footage of suspects.

A Dublin man has been given a seven-year sentence for his involvement in a €2m drug seizure.

A man who stabbed an acquaintance during a fight at a Christmas party leaving his victim permanently paralysed from the chest down has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A former ESB worker who planted a hoax bomb at the main entrance of The Four Court buildings two years ago closing it and Dublin's Inn's Quay for two hours, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A father of three who punctured the lung of "an innocent young man" after stabbing him in "a deliberate and brutal way" has been jailed for five years by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An adopted son of a radio personality accused of sexually molesting four young girls told a Central Criminal Court jury he made false allegations of sexual abuse against the accused.

The radio personality accused of sexually abusing four young girls told a Central Criminal Court jury he never interfered with any of the complainants.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of raping his niece several times has reached its closing stages in the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin woman who claims her uncle raped her denied in the Central Criminal Court that she told her aunt she had made up the allegations.