Once the fire brigade intervenes, a house can be left with water as well as smoke damage, says <B>Caroline Delaney.</b>

A Brazilian student has been given a three-month suspended sentence and a €600 fine for an "elaborate hoax" in which she claimed she had been raped by two men in Dublin.

A Brazilian student has been given a three-month suspended sentence and a €600 fine for an “elaborate hoax” in which she claimed she had been raped by two men in Dublin.

A Dublin man poured petrol on himself outside a garda station and threatened to set himself on fire, a court has heard.

The DPP has asked for an order preventing a convicted sex offender from contacting children online after a court heard he was using Twitter to claim he worked for the band One Direction.

A 49-year-old Dublin man has received a three-year suspended sentence for sending crude text messages with a strong sexual content to a 15-year-old boy.

A 49-year-old Dublin man has received a three-year suspended sentence for sending crude text messages with a strong sexual content to a 15-year-old boy.

A young Chinese woman who has been living in Ireland for almost eight years, is facing deportation — all because of a shopping day-trip to Belfast.

A judge has refused a DPP request to prevent a taxi driver accused of sexual assault from working late at night.

A judge has found that leading criminal lawyer John Devane had assaulted solicitor John Herbert at Limerick District Court.

A high-profile legal figure has been cleared of assaulting another lawyer outside a courtroom amid claims of client poaching.

A judge has told a Tallaght teenager who stole a Chinese takeaway that “this kind of crap” puts delivery men off doing their jobs.

A young man serving a sentence for armed robbery will not serve any additional time for a “sickening” assault in a fast-food restaurant.

A property developer was found not guilty today of criminal damage and dangerous driving charges in connection with an incident in which a concrete mixer truck was driven at the gates of Leinster House last September.

The Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin father accused of sexually abusing three of his children has reached its closing stages.

A Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of a Dublin father accused of sexually abusing three of his children has been hearing closing speeches from counsel.

A consultant paediatrician has told a Central Criminal Court rape trial jury that genital injuries to a child from sexual abuse could heal within days and not leave any residual findings.