Alan Cawley murdered two elderly brothers with special needs. He has been told to "rot in hell" by their family after losing an appeal against his conviction.

The DPP appealed the leniency of a fully suspended jail term being given to a garda in Cork on corruption charges but the Court of Appeal decided yesterday that it would not alter the two-year sentence.

A North Kerry bachelor farmer convicted of the manslaughter of a 73-year-old neighbour by driving the pronged forks of an agricultural teleporter into his car in a row over a loud crow-banger had his five-year jail term replaced with a sentence of nine years in jail today.

A man who bit a garda's finger with such force that he broke the bone is facing potential jail time after being told his suspended sentence was too lenient.

A pair of armed robbers who pointed a firearm into the face of a middle aged postmistress have lost appeals against the severity of their nine-year sentences.

A 69-year-old man sent to prison last year for abusing two generations of his family is not too old to serve a 20-year sentence, according to lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A man found floating in the ocean next to 65 bales of cocaine has had his 30-year prison sentence for one of the State’s largest ever drugs haul cut to 23 years by the Court of Appeal.

A man jailed for raping his wife, after she asked a judge not to send him to jail, must wait to hear whether his sentence will be increased on foot of an appeal by prosecutors.

A dependency on alcohol can diminish a person’s responsibility for murder such that juries should be allowed to find them guilty of manslaughter, the Court of Appeal has been told.

A ‘Daniel O’Donnell superfan' has had her prison sentence for participating in a cocaine “factory” cut in half by the Court of Appeal.

A 75-year-old man has had his conviction for raping his granddaughter quashed after reports were obtained to determine whether he was fit to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court more than a year ago.

A detective garda jailed for harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters is to walk free from prison following a successful sentence appeal.

A man caught cultivating 112 cannabis plants in Co Tipperary while he should have been serving a 12-year-jail term in his home country, has moved to appeal his five-year sentence.

The Referendum Commission started printing its guide to last year’s blasphemy referendum a week before the Government had announced the polling day - because it feared it would not have enough time to produce the leaflets due to the delay in declaring the date.

Prosecutors have asked the Court of Appeal to overturn a ruling prohibiting the trial of a man for allegedly abusing his two sisters 30 to 40 years ago.

Struck-off solicitor Michael Lynn has lost his latest legal challenge ahead of a trial next year for alleged theft of almost €30 million.

Real IRA leader who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles in 2015 has died in prison.

A man previously jailed for damaging a €10m Monet painting must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction for handling another artwork stolen from a stately home.

Dale's father said he “couldn’t believe that my son was left unrecognisable in the bed, that one human being could do that to another".

A “quiet and shy” Cork man has been sent to jail for possessing 1,027 images of child pornography after his original suspended sentence was deemed too lenient.

A man jailed for online sexual exploitation and defilement of a 13-year-old girl, when he was aged 19, has had his six-and-a-half year prison sentence cut on appeal.

Three men jailed for violent burglaries in rural county Limerick seven years ago have launched appeals against their convictions.

A religious teacher jailed for molesting a young student at a Dublin mosque has had his 14-month jail term increased to four-and-a-half years by the Court of Appeal.

Michael Lynn (50) of Carlton Square, Maynooth, Co Kildare, is due to stand trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next year on 21 counts of stealing almost €30m from seven financial institutions.

After the shooting, Kierans went to The Square bar in Bailieborough where a "siege" took place.

A violent burglar used as “muscle” to evict a family from their home, in an attack led by former INLA man Dessie O’Hare, has had his prison sentence increased on foot of an appeal by prosecutors.

A man who broke into his ex-partner's home before subjecting her and her teenage foster daughter to a series of violent rapes described as a “night of horror” has lost an appeal against the severity of his 18-year prison sentence.

A man found guilty of shooting his wife dead in an act of gross negligence must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction and sentence.

A man jailed for biting another man’s ear off in the smoking area of a pub, following a “very minor altercation”, has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence.

A 32-year-old man jailed for raping a woman without a condom, who he had been briefly dating, has lost an appeal against his conviction.

Lawyers for a man found floating in the ocean next to 65 bales of cocaine have told the Court of Appeal that their client was a “bungling stevedore” in one of Ireland largest ever drugs hauls, rather than a “lieutenant”.

A man previously jailed for damaging a €10m Monet painting has had second-thoughts about representing himself in an appeal for handling another artwork stolen from a stately home.

Two men have been found not guilty of IRA membership following a Special Criminal Court trial in which an FBI agent uncovered a Dublin-based plot to buy a grenade and Semtex online.

As many as 3.2m people will cast their vote in today’s eighth amendment referendum including 118,000 new voters, underlining the level of public importance being assigned to the historic vote.

Doctors who are opposed to abortion will not be forced to dispense the abortion pill, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

The referendum commission is set to launch a series of television, radio, and media advertisements urging people to inform themselves about the details of Ireland’s abortion laws before the national vote in just four and a half weeks.

A man who continues to show no remorse for raping his wife has had his prison sentence cut on appeal.

A man jailed for raping and threatening to kill his wife as their marriage was breaking down continues to show no remorse for raping her, the Court of Appeal has heard.

A man who raped a foreign student in the hall of her Carlow home after following her from a bus they had shared has been jailed for 10 years.

A Wicklow man who raped his daughter while she was recovering from serious leg burns has been jailed for 13 years for abusing her and her young cousin.

A man who ordered two grenades off the dark net has been jailed for three years and six months for IRA membership.

A dissident republican leader convicted of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation which plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles two years ago has been jailed for eleven and a half years.