The US claims a Wicklow man was an administrator of a the Silk Road website which offered anonymity to those both selling and buying items including illegal drugs and hacking software.

James McCarthy will be 13 next month. The day he was born is a day his family will never forget — for all the wrong reasons. 

A 12-year-old boy who can’t walk, talk or sit up on his own, has brought a High Court action for damages over catastrophic injuries he suffered in the final stages of his mother’s pregnancy.

A High Court judge has warned that if internet drinking contests continue, they will result in a “tsunami” of homicide and rape prosecutions before his court.

A High Court judge has said if internet drinking contests continue, they will result in a “tsunami” of homicide and rape prosecutions before his court.

A 36-year-old Wexford man has gone on trial for the murder of his friend at his apartment over two years ago.

A prosecutor has told a murder trial that the injuries that led to a Drogheda woman’s death were inconsistent with the version of events given by her boyfriend, who is charged with her murder.

An Irish engineering firm, based in the Middle East, is hoping to recruit up to 70 workers after it secured a €16m contract at Abu Dhabi Airport.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 60-year-old man in a “vicious, one-sided, sustained attack” is expected to retire today to consider its verdict.

THE DPP has ordered a retrial into the unlawful killing of 59-year-old Evelyn Joel.

A JURY yesterday failed to reach a verdict in the trial of Eleanor Joel and her partner John Costen, who had denied the unlawful killing, by neglect, of Evelyn Joel.

A doctor has told a rape trial that she examined the complainant in a sexual assault unit in the local hospital and found red marks and abrasions on the teenager’s neck consistent with having being held down.

A Waterford teenager has told a jury that she got back with her ex-boyfriend ten months after she claimed he raped her but denied that the renewed relationship was sexual.

A Central Criminal Court jury has been told that if ever there was a case of murder, then the stabbing in the heads of two Polish men outside their home was it.

The killer of two Polish men has today told his murder trial that he stabbed the mechanics in their front garden because one of them shouted at them and he thought they had stabbed his father.

Racist comments were shouted at two Polish mechanics before they were stabbed in their heads with a screwdriver outside their home, a murder trial has heard today.

A teenager who stabbed two mechanics in their heads had spent the day taking drugs and drinking alcohol and had been stabbed himself days earlier.

A number of witnesses told a Dublin murder trial that they saw or heard two Polish mechanics being killed outside their Dublin home.

BOTH sides have given their closing speeches at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Cork painter charged with murdering a local widow.

Both sides have given their closing speeches at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Cork painter charged with murdering a local widow.

Widow Anne Corcoran’s killer laughed as he told detectives about driving her car through a garda checkpoint less than two days after burying her in a shallow grave, his murder trial heard today.

THERE was nothing unfortunate or accidental in the way Cork woman Anne Corcoran met her death, a jury at a murder trial heard yesterday.

A MURDER trial has heard that West Cork widow Anne Corcoran was abducted, beaten and robbed before her body was set on fire and later buried in a wood near Ballinspittle, Co Cork, last year.

A 50-year-old man abducted a 60-year-old widow from her home, brought her to his house in the boot of her car, beat her unconscious and left her to die while he cleaned out her bank account before going on a skiing holiday, a court heard.

A Dublin man has denied in evidence at the Central Criminal Court that he raped a woman as she lay in her bed while her husband slept downstairs.

A GARDA and a firefighter were killed instantly when an apprentice carpenter driving with excess alcohol ploughed into them while they attended an accident scene, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A WEXFORD man was declared a sex offender and sentenced to 18 months in jail yesterday for an “illicit, passionate” kiss on a 14-year-old girl.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering his estranged partner in front of their son has retired to a hotel for the night and will continue their deliberations at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court in the morning.

A 30-year-old Clonakilty woman lay bleeding to death in her estranged partner’s flat whilst her two young daughters were locked inside their home waiting for her to return so they could celebrate her oldest daughter’s ninth birthday, a court has heard.

A Turkish barber accused of murdering his estranged partner in front of their baby son told gardaí he was trained to shoot in the Turkish army but not trained in the use of knives, a court has heard.

A Turkish barber accused of murdering his estranged partner wrote letters saying he would kill her and then himself the night before he stabbed her in front of their son, a court has heard.

The jury hearing the trial of a man accused of murdering his estranged partner in front of their son before turning a knife on himself, have heard he was sober when he started swinging the knife at her.

A Turkish barber, who stabbed his estranged partner in front of their 21-month-old son, described to gardaí the shock of seeing the mother of his child collapse bleeding and then cutting his own throat.

THE baby son of a woman stabbed to death by her estranged partner sat watching television on the couch as his parents struggled over the weapon, a court has heard.

The 21-month-old son of a woman stabbed to death by her estranged partner before he turned a knife on himself sat watching television on the couch as his parents struggled over the weapon, a court has heard.

A Turkish barber who stabbed his ex-partner and left her to die in front of their one-year-old son before cutting his own throat and wrists was “inconsolable” over his child’s broken finger, a court has heard.

A Clonakilty woman was found stabbed to death in her estranged partner's flat with their baby son asleep nearby and her ex-partner lying on the floor with cuts to his throat and wrists, a court has heard.

A jury has been sworn to hear the trial of a Turkish barber charged with murdering a Cork mother-of-three.

One of the five anti-war protesters accused of criminally damaging a US aeroplane at Shannon Airport has told a jury she honestly believed that her actions saved lives.

A 26-YEAR-OLD who drank 12 or 13 pints of cider said he head-butted 14-year-old Brian Rossiter, kicked him in the head and gave him an upper cut into the jaw, all because he made a comment about his brother.

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to three and a half years yesterday at the Central Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice and withholding information from gardaí, in relation to the murder of a man whose body was found in a Co Waterford wood.