One of the central issues in a dispute over ownership of a football stadium in Athlone, Co Westmeath, will be over whether a €660,000 contribution to the development of the facility was a gift, the High Court heard.

A man who sexually abused his daughter nearly every day for 10 years has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with one suspended.

A young woman who was sexually abused by her father nearly every day for 10 years said she felt like an animal the day her father cornered her in a shed and tried to have sex with her.

A jury has been read the suicide note of a teenage girl who said she was repeatedly sexually abused by her mother’s partner.

A man who attempted to abduct a teenage girl intended to sexually assault her, a court in the Midlands has heard.