WEARING casual clothes and a New York Yankees baseball cap, Jonathan Costen arrived in the old, dilapidated courtroom with Eleanor Joel, who was wearing a grey tracksuit top and dark pants, at 10.30am.

There was unease about a suspected IRA mole based in an Garda station when two RUC officers were ambushed by the terror group, an inquiry has heard.

A chronic drug addict has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being caught robbing the same Dublin pub with a sawn-off shotgun for the second time in six years.

A Donegal man has been found not guilty of raping a teenage girl in his car over three years ago.

The trial of a Donegal man for allegedly kidnapping and raping a teenage girl in a car has continued with legal argument in the absence of the jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A doctor who examined a 14-year-old Donegal girl has told the Central Criminal Court that she "she wasn't sure she was definitely raped".

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a Dublin man against his conviction for falsely accusing a priest of child sexual abuse.

A convicted criminal whose assault with "a high level of gratuitous violence" on a man walking his dog may leave the victim blind for life has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The defence barrister for a Waterford man on trial for the murder of his younger brother has said he has never seen a case with stronger evidence of provocation.

A man who bit-off a piece of another man’s nose in a drink and drug-fuelled fight over a missing €50 has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who was involved in the vicious assault of a taxi-driver who was hit with a brick while face down in a river has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who held a taxi-driver's face down in a river while a co-accused hit him with a brick has been jailed for eight years in consecutive sentences by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.