A garda has gone on trial accused of harassing a State solicitor by describing her as politically corrupt in a series of "hideous" and "vitriolic" letters and emails.

A garda has gone on trial today accused of carrying out a campaign of harassment against the ex-wife of her partner.

The trial of six men accused of falsely imprisoning the former Tánaiste Joan Burton has heard that the root cause of an escalation in the protest had to be "laid firmly at the door of gardaí".

A mother accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her into prostitution has been acquitted after several inconsistencies emerged in the alleged victim's evidence.

A woman accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her into prostitution has gone on trial in Dublin.

A girl who has been left with a scar after she tripped over a mat at the Cloverhill Prison visitor centre when she was four years of age has settled her High action for over €25,000.

The prosecutor in a Kildare murder trial has told the jury there is a series of facts that he believes proves the accused man's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

A murder accused said gardaí would never be able to charge him and dismissed their evidence saying "they have nothing", a trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A pistol found buried in a woods 750 metres from a murder accused’s home was matched to the bullets used in the fatal shooting, a trial at the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A convicted paedophile has been given eight concurrent life sentences for raping his girlfriend before breaking into her mother’s house and raping her three days later.

A young man who was mistaken for a gang member and stabbed to death in a field had a “heart of gold and a bright future”, his mother told a sentencing hearing for his killer at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

A man raped his girlfriend before raping her mother days later after breaking into her house and holding a knife to her throat, a court has heard.

A man raped his girlfriend before raping her mother days later after breaking into her house and holding a knife to her throat, a court has heard.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murder after an argument over a game of backgammon will begin their deliberations tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court.

A witness at the trial of a Georgian man accused of murder failed to identify the accused when presented with his photograph, the Central Criminal Court heard Friday.

A former Anglo Irish Bank employee denied to gardaí that she was involved in a conspiracy to conceal bank accounts from Revenue as part of a tax evasion scheme.

A carer for an elderly lady will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after she stole over é30,000 from the retired school teacher.

A Dublin playwright was asked to join a criminal operation to extort money from a business because he was good at voice characterisations, a court has heard.

The man who damaged a Claude Monet painting, estimated to be worth €10m, at the National Gallery of Ireland has been sentenced to six years in jail.

A banqueting manager at the Shelbourne Hotel said he noticed threads hanging from a painting in one of their function rooms and took a picture of the damage on his phone.

A circuit court judge has strongly criticised the juvenile justice system as being incapable of dealing with violent young men who "prowl the streets taking their opportunities as they arrive".

Three men who took part in a vicious attack in Dublin city centre on two US tourists who had tried to stop a robbery will be sentenced on Monday.

A 20-year-old man was suffering from “an acute exacerbation” of schizophrenia when he brandished knives towards two passers-by and six gardaí, a court has heard.

A man who tried to choke his ex-partner with a vacuum cleaner flex before beating her with an iron and smashing a wine bottle on her has been jailed for 20 months.

The trial has begun of a man accused of knocking a hole through a Claude Monet oil-painting at the National Gallery of Ireland, causing €7m worth of criminal damage.

The trial has begun of a man accused of knocking a hole through a Claude Monet oil-painting at the National Gallery of Ireland, causing €7m worth of criminal damage.

The trial of a man accused of involvement in a €29m cocaine operation last year has heard he was seen on CCTV handling the drugs.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who was convicted earlier in the year of sexual assault, may be released from prison before the hearing on the leniency of the sentence imposed has been heard.

A hearing date on the leniency of the sentence imposed on Anthony Lyons, a businessman convicted of sexual assault, has been applied for at the Court of Criminal Appeal by the DPP.

THE controversial case in which a Dublin businessman was ordered to pay a victim of sexual assault a sum of €75,000, and had five-and-a-half years of a six-year sentence suspended, suggests that here is one law for the rich, and another for the poor, in this country.

A high-profile aviation broker has been convicted of sexual assault after a jury rejected his claim that his cholesterol medication made him do it.

The trial of Dublin man accused of sexual assault has heard he admits attacking the woman but claims he was overcome by an “uncontrollable urge” due to a cocktail of alcohol and medication.

A west Dublin man on trial for attempting to rape a drunk teenage girl told gardaí he had snorted so much cocaine on the night that he "could barely fit it up my nose anymore".

A teenage girl has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she woke to find a Dublin man trying to have sex with her and that he punched her repeatedly in the face when she tried to cry out.

An African man who raped a teenage Zambian girl he claimed he had married has been given a 15 years prison sentence by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court.

An African man who faces sentence for raping a teenage Zambian girl he claimed he had married has told the Central Criminal Court he wishes to fire his third legal team.

A man who sexually assaulted a neighbour's four year old son told gardaí he was not a "normal person" and wanted to be caught so he would no longer be a danger to children.

Two bouncers have pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting and causing harm to two men at a Leeson Street club.