An Offaly man has admitted to sexually assaulting a woman in a house in Waterford on the second day of his rape trial at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 40-year-old man has been acquitted of the attempted murder of his estranged wife two years ago after a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

A student who sexually assaulted an 11-year old girl by squeezing her bottom and chasing her has received a three-year suspended sentence.

A heroin addict has been jailed for attempting to have sex with a drunken 14-year-old girl in Dublin city centre.

A Sligo man has been jailed for 15 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his teenage daughter which led to him fathering her child.

A mother who “disregarded her sacred duty” and neglected her five young children “to the point of cruelty” has been sentenced to four years with the last two and half years suspended.

A mother who “disregarded her sacred duty” and neglected her five young children “to the point of cruelty” has been sentenced to four years with the last two and half years suspended.

A Sligo man has today been convicted of the rape and sexual abuse of his then 13-year-old daughter, who claims he fathered her child.

The jury in the trial of a Sligo man accused of raping his 14-year-old daughter and fathering her child is due to begin deliberations on Monday.

An expert witness has told the trial of a man accused of raping his 14-year-old daughter that there is strong DNA evidence that the accused fathered her child.

A Sligo man accused of raping his 14-year-old daughter and fathering her child told gardaí that his conscience was clear and that there were worse sinners than him.

A 19-year-old woman has told the Central Criminal Court that her father smiled at her and told her she was no longer a virgin after he raped her five years ago.

A former paramilitary has been sentenced to 15 years today for raping and sexually assaulting the daughters of a woman he met on the internet.

A 33-year-old mother has pleaded guilty to failing to provide adequate food and clothing for five children.

A mother-of-four who was acquitted of her close friend’s manslaughter but found guilty of assault causing harm outside the Rotunda Hospital, is to be sentenced in July.

A MOTHER of four has been acquitted of her close friend’s manslaughter outside the Rotunda Hospital two years ago.

The trial of a mother-of-four accused of her close friend’s manslaughter has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A woman has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the manslaughter of another female in the city two years ago.

A 17-year-old boy has been given a five-year probation supervision order for the oral rape of his three-and-a-half year old cousin at his Co Clare home almost two years ago.

A 17-year-old boy will be sentenced next week for the oral rape of his three-and-a-half-year-old cousin at his Co Clare home almost two years ago.

The prosecution case has closed in the Central Criminal Court trial of a father accused of raping his young daughter.

A Dublin man will be sentenced next week for his role in trying to make a female college student have sex with her male housemates after breaking into their home with a hammer and hacksaw.

The sentencing of a Sligo man who was last month convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his daughter has been adjourned today after the man was hospitalised following an alleged overdose.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the six-year sentence imposed on a legally blind man who strangled a 60-year-old after calling to his apartment to service his computer.

TWO Clare men were yesterday jailed for “a cowardly and unprovoked attack” that ended the life of a 26-year-old school teacher on St Stephen’s night in Ennis last year.

A Sligo man has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his teenage daughter.

The teenage daughter of a Sligo man has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he called her a “whore” as he raped her and kicked her in the face when she later called him a “pervert.”

The trial of a Sligo man accused of the rape and sexual assault of his daughter has opened at the Central Criminal Court.

A young man from a family of gardaí faces possible life imprisonment when he is sentenced next year for operating a cocaine factory from his garage.

A Dublin man has been given an 11-year sentence for raping and sexually abusing his former partner's child from the age of eight.

The Court of Criminal appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a Sligo man seeking to overturn his conviction for the manslaughter of a 14-year-old girl.

A 73-year-old father who repeatedly raped his young daughters and sexually abused his son has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Dublin father has denied he sexually assaulted his two young daughters by digital penetration because the nails on his hand would have wounded their skin.

A Dublin father accused of sexually abusing his children has said he believes the woman who fostered his son “planted” stories of abuse and neglect in the boy’s mind for “underlying reasons”.

A Dublin father has denied physically or sexually abusing his children and said they their family home “could not have been happier” before his children were taken into care.

The foster mother of a boy who has accused his father of sexual abuse has told a jury that when the child arrived at her home as a six-year-old he was emaciated, not toilet trained and unable to recognise common foods.

A consultant paediatrician has told a Central Criminal Court rape trial jury that genital injuries to a child from sexual abuse could heal within days and not leave any residual findings.

A father accused of sexually abusing his three children told gardaí that he had written a letter purporting to admit molesting his daughters but said the allegations were made so the children could get home from care.

A teenage boy has denied that his allegations of sexual abuse against his father are a result of things becoming “twisted” in his brain after he was taken into care as a six-year-old.

A teenage boy has described to a jury how as a small child he would go to the toilet in his bedroom rather then risk being sexually assaulted by his father when he went to the bathroom.

A second daughter of a 73-year-old Dublin man has alleged at the Central Criminal Court that she was repeatedly sexually abused by him as a child.

A 73-year-old accused of raping and sexually abusing three of his children allegedly encouraged one to run away from the care home she was taken into so he could rape her.

A detective garda has revealed she couldn’t trace social workers, counsellors or doctors who dealt with a woman alleging her brother raped her 40 years ago.

The trial of a man accused of raping his sister 40 years ago continued today in legal argument in the absence of the jury.