The jury in the trial of a man accused of putting his fist through a €10m Claude Monet painting has retired to consider its verdict.

A man accused of putting his fist through a Claude Monet painting told gardaí he had done “nothing wrong” and had “nothing to hide.”

A man accused of putting his fist through a €10m Claude Monet painting shouted afterwards “it was an accident”, his trial has heard.

A tourist who witnessed a €10m Claude Monet painting being damaged said he saw the accused man “lift his fist and put it through the painting”.

A man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for his alleged role in a €29m drug operation last year.

A Dublin father who sexually assaulted his neighbour while her eight-year-old son lay in the bed beside them has been given a two-year, suspended sentence.

An entrepreneur and Trinity College graduate who organised the importation of €29m worth of cocaine into the country will be sentenced next month.

The wife of a businessman accused of sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home has told his trial that he is a kind and gentle man.

A manager of a State-owned training centre defrauded a woman in his care of €55,000 to pay off his own debts, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A former priest and convicted child abuser has been jailed for three years for possession of large amounts of child pornography.

A former estate agent who stole €1.6m after he used solicitor Gerald Keane’s name to encourage 25 investors to participate in a “Ponzi” scheme has been jailed for six years.

A Kildare trucker whose business failed when it lost a lucrative contract with the Irish Times has been given a suspended sentence for transporting almost €250,000 of drugs.

A man who dragged a garda along with his car after refusing to stop for him has been jailed for two and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin couple who stored over half a million euros worth of cannabis in their home have been given a seven year suspended sentence.

A former Superquinn employee who was arrested in Dublin Airport the day after she stole €45,000 from the company safe has escaped a jail term.

A caretaker who stole more than €28,000 from the school he worked in to pay for his wife’s hospital fees after she miscarried has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

A Romanian man who stole cash from a Dublin ATM with cloned credit cards has been sentenced to three years in jail with the final 18 months suspended.

A man who anally raped and sexually abused his nephew “nearly every night” for two years has received a seven year sentence with the last two years suspended.

A former An Post worker will be sentenced later for stealing €25,000 from business client cash lodgments when he fell into financial difficulties after being out sick.

A young Dublin man who once helped save a Romanian family from their burning home has been jailed for seven years for firing bullets through another couple’s front door and sitting room window.

A man who petrol bombed a hostel so his girlfriend would be kicked out of it has been sentenced to three years.

A “vulnerable man” who stored a semi-automatic pistol, 13 rounds of ammunition and €30,000 worth of drugs at his home for a “sinister figure” was sentenced to two and a half years by Judge Martin Nolan.

A man has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for sexually assaulting and raping his young stepdaughter in Leitrim and Mayo over a four-year period.

A man will be sentenced later this month for sexually assaulting and anally raping his young stepdaughter in Leitrim and Mayo over a four year period.

A Dublin father-of-three who violently raped a woman he had just met that night at a house party has been remanded in custody pending sentence at the Central Criminal Court.

A drug addict who terrorised 13 pensioners in their homes, assaulting and falsely imprisoning some, will be sentenced next month.

A father of two who became a drug courier when he fell into financial difficulties after losing his job has been jailed for eight years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The "warehouse man" in a drugs racket has been jailed for 12 years for possessing over €1m worth of cannabis and cocaine in Dublin city centre two-years ago.

A Polish Meath resident who bit off part of a man’s ear in an assault in McDonald’s on O’Connell Street has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An addict who has been "in and out of jail for the last 13 years" has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell for burglary and possessing shotgun ammunition and drugs.

A Donegal man who told gardaí that he had "touched and rubbed" his wife's niece has claimed at his rape trial at the Central Criminal Court that he had "only kissed, hugged and cuddled" the then schoolgirl.

A Donegal woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she falsely claimed her uncle-in-law raped and sexually assaulted her because she resented his wife, her aunt.

A Donegal woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she was helped by gardaí or anyone else in changing the year she claims her uncle-in-law last sexually abused her.

A man who threatened a garda while on bail for possessing cocaine valued over €20,000 of has been given a five year sentence by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A “major player” in ATM fraud who stole over €25,000 in a week and was caught after trying to avoid a garda checkpoint has been given a four year sentence by at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardaí, who were repeatedly stabbed after foiling a gang trying to rob captives they were holding in a north city suburb, throught they were going to be killed by a balaclava-masked man wielding a knife, a court has heard today.

A former Brown Thomas employee who stole over €20,000 from the store in a gift voucher scam has been ordered by Judge Desmond Hogan to carry out 240 hours community service.

A heroin addict who received a five year prison sentence in Naas Circuit Criminal Court on Thurday for robbery, has been jailed for a further six years for armed robbery in Dublin.

A punter who smashed television sets in a bookmakers’ office, causing damage estimated at €17,835, in "several minutes of madness" after losing €2 on a bet has escaped with a suspended sentence.

A man who robbed a Co Laois bank four years ago has been given an eight-year suspended sentence after repaying the €10,000 taken in the raid.

A waste disposal company, its director and a truck driver contracted to the company have had their sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges of illegal dumping at sites in Wicklow.

A man whose "life spiralled out of control" when a boy was killed after falling off the back of his truck has received an 11 year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for having heroin valued €132,000.

A Ballyfermot man whose "life spiralled out of control" when a boy was killed after falling off the back of his truck faces sentence after €132,000 worth of heroin was found in a ’Moses basket’ in his home.

A WOMAN who was given a suspended sentence for persistent harassment of a man with letters and phone calls expressing her affection has again been warned that she will go to jail if she continues to contact him.