The Dutch skipper of one of the world’s largest fishing trawlers, who was found guilty of breaching EU fishing regulations in Irish seas, has moved to appeal his conviction.

A father of three who awoke from a drunken slumber to find a man allegedly performing a sex act on him has been jailed for six years after brutally attacking the man.

A serving soldier who drove the getaway car in a bomb attack in Donegal has been jailed for a total of six years.

A motorist banned from driving for two years for drink-driving has been behind the wheel throughout his ban due to a loophole.

The sentencing of prominent republican Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy for tax evasion has been adjourned until general election day.

A man whose dangerous driving caused the worst traffic accident in the history of the State, resulting in the deaths of eight people, was yesterday sentenced to eight years after his original two- year sentence was found to be too lenient.

Prosecutors have told the Court of Appeal that the four-year sentence imposed on a 26-year-old man whose dangerous driving caused the deaths of eight people was too lenient.

A former court clerk fined for threatening to kill a man he thought was having an affair with his wife has lost an appeal against his conviction.

A 31-year-old country and western singer who uses a wheelchair faces jail if he does not complete a community service sentence or get a medical report as to why he cannot do it.

Two men have been jailed after a savage golf club attack on a man as he celebrated his daughter’s christening.

A man who bit into another’s face has been jailed for two years. Stephen Fox, 25, bit so hard into the face of his victim that he left a hole in his cheek leaving him scarred for life.

A man with “superhuman” strength who had to be restrained by seven gardaí after going berserk has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Two men who tied up and robbed a woman carried out the raid after watching a video, a sentencing hearing has been told.

A moneylender has been found guilty of threatening to kill another man – because he owed him just €70.

An 86-year-old artist has taken a community group to court seeking an order for them to build a 2.4m wall next to his Donegal home.

A moneylender held a gun to the head of another man and told him he would kill him because he owed him just €70, a court has been told.

The DPP is to appeal against the sentence handed down to Shaun Kelly, the Donegal man found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people.

A man has been jailed for two years and disqualified from driving for 10 years for causing a crash which killed eight people in Inishowen.

A 26-year-old Donegal man who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men has been sentenced to four years in prison with the last two suspended.

The man charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people in Inishowen in 2010 has pleaded guilty.

Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and saxophone player Chris De Margary have reached a settlement with a neighbour over hunting rights in Co Donegal.

A man at the centre of the country’s worst ever car crash has been warned that his bail conditions will be revoked if he continues to breach his conditions.

A garda who sexually assaulted a female officer and harassed another at a Garda station has been given a six-month jail sentence and fined a total of €10,000.

A man sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a five-year old boy who was in the care of his mother has been returned to jail after a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A farmer has been banned from talking to his own brother for three years.

A 70-year-old former Fianna Fáil senator has been jailed for his role in attempting to extort €100,000 from a Department of Agriculture veterinary inspector.

A paedophile who sexually abused three relatives over a four-year period paid his young victims to remain quiet.

A Kildare man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to the possession of explosive substances.

Eight Dublin men charged with membership of the IRA have been served with a book of evidence at the Special Criminal Court.

Gardaí posed as delivery men to smash a drug smuggling ring in Co Donegal.

Only by properly explaining the benefits of further eurozone integration to the electorate will it be possible to introduce the reforms needed to make the region work, says Financial Times’ columnist, Philip Stephens.

A judge has asked legal teams to “get their heads together” to allow one of Ireland’s most serious alleged dangerous driving cases to go ahead.

Lawyers for a man charged in connection with an alleged surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist garda units are seeking the disclosure of more evidence before a date for trial can be set, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Two Limerick men were charged at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin yesterday with the murder of local businessman Roy Collins in 2009.

An up-and-coming GAA star has been jailed after an attack in which a man lost the sight in one eye.

A man who beat a woman so badly he left the print of his shoe on her body had his two-year prison term substituted to 240 hours’ community service.

A grandson of Independent Dublin city councillor and former Sinn Féin member Christy Burke who is charged with IRA membership and firearms offences has gone back in to custody having been previously released on bail.

A man at the centre of the so-called Romeo and Juliet court case has been sentenced to six months in prison but has had his sentence suspended.

Three Waterford men arrested last September after a garda investigation in to the activities of dissident republicans are due to stand trial separately at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin next spring.