The Special Criminal Court has made no order regarding an application by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan to review the transcript of the sentence hearing where a six-month sentence was imposed on him for the possession of a mobile phone in court.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan has been given a further six months prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to possession of a mobile phone at Portlaoise District Court almost two years ago.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan was given a further six-month prison sentence by the Special Criminal Court today after he pleaded guilty to possession of a mobile phone at Portlaoise District Court in 2010.

A robber who “ranks amongst the all time stupidest criminals to come before the courts” has been jailed for a botched armed robbery where the raiders had to be rescued by the fire brigade.

A GROUP of elderly residents at a community nursing unit in the Midlands have brought a legal challenge aimed at preventing the HSE from closing the facility for financial reasons.

A group of elderly residents at a Community Nursing Unit in the Midlands have brought a legal challenge aimed at preventing the HSE from closing the facility for financial reasons.

A retired superintendent giving evidence in the trial of a Dublin man accused of the sexual assault of a child denied gardaí were involved in a crusade against the accused.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of the sexual assault and defilement of a child has heard DNA evidence linking the accused and the alleged victim to a blood stained bed sheet.

A man accused of child sexual assault and defilement twice interrupted proceedings to demand his counsel stop cross examining the alleged victim and her mother at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A FORMER vet has been fined €30,000 after he pleaded guilty to possessing a range of animal medicines without authorisation.

A secondary school teacher has described a former colleague's claims that he sexually harassed and bullied her as "absolutely and completely wrong".

A secondary school teacher has claimed before the High Court that she was bullied and sexually harassed by a male colleague.

A Dublin father has been sentenced to 14 years in prison with the final two years suspended for the sexual and physical abuse of his daughter.

The jury in a trial of a Dublin father accused of raping, sexually assaulting and physically assaulting his daughter over a 10-year period, have been sent away until tomorrow morning.

A 22-year-old man who claims that security staff at a nightclub "set upon him for no reason" and assaulted him has told the High Court that he "feared for his life" after being grabbed around the neck.

A Tipperary man who was caught transporting almost €2.85m worth of drugs and 27 working pistols, ammunition and silencers has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by Judge Patrick McCartan.

A Cavan man who received an 18-month suspended sentence for sexually assaulting another man has had his sentence partially reactivated by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Romanian man who imprisoned a woman who thought he was a taxi driver and drove her 35 miles from her destination in Dublin city centre to Wicklow where she managed to escape has been given a three-year sentence.

A Dublin man who systematically raped and sexually abused the daughter of a family friend while she was aged between six and 12 years old has been given a 15-year sentence by Mr Justice Barry White.

A 64-year-old Dublin man who raped a teenage girl has been remanded on bail for sentence later.

A Meath man has been jailed for six years for threatening to kill someone who “owed money” for drugs.

A Mayo man whose companion used a garrote on a taxi driver when they robbed him at a halting site has been jailed for three years by Judge Rory Maccabe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A FORMER prisoner has brought an action at the High Court for damages against the governor of Wheatfield Prison for injuries allegedly received when a bucket of boiling water was thrown over him while imprisoned there.

JUDGE Patrick McCartan described the fraud as “a clever scheme of deceit”.

A consultant surgeon who defrauded almost €750,000 from insurance companies through a false breast cancer claim has been jailed for four years by Judge Patrick McCartan.

A 74 year-old Laois "devout Christian" who told a young female relative that if she revealed he was raping her the "shock would kill" her mother has been jailed for six years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

A Co Laois man who raped a female over a four year period will be sentenced in March at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud trial has been told by the prosecuting counsel that the evidence could lead to only one conclusion: "This was a clever, elaborate and dishonest fraud."

An Egyptian national who worked for a consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud has today denied that he brought "an object in a jar filled with fluid" from Egypt to Ireland for him.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud said he made "a hard decision" when he chose to perform a lumpectomy on his wife while she lay conscious on an examination table in his clinic.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud broke down in tears at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as he described the day he said his wife discovered a lump in her left breast.

Two English men who transported cocaine and heroin valued at €2.6m into Ireland in secret compartments in a van have been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 37-year-old Dublin man, described by his own barrister as "a rough diamond", has been cleared of murdering the man he was being paid to protect.

The chief eyewitness in a murder trial has told the Central Criminal Court he did not tell the full story to gardaí in his first statement because he was in fear of his life.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing a drug dealer today failed to reach a verdict.

The jury in a Dublin pub murder trial retired to a hotel last night after failing to reach a verdict.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of a gangland style shooting in a Dublin pub last year are expected to retire to consider their verdict today.

A man accused of killing a drug dealer had kidnapped a Tallaght gang member on his behalf, the Dublin Central Criminal Court heard today.

A witness at the Central Criminal Court today described the chaos which ensued after a shooting in an Inchicore pub packed with families on Grand National day last year.