A draft letter from the Garda Commissioner to the Department of Justice about the legal strategy pursued by the commissioner at the O'Higgins inquiry was written by a Department official, the Charleton tribunal has heard.

The Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan will face public questioning today over the Gardaí's attitude to whistleblowers.

A Commission of Investigation is to be carried out into garda malpractice in the Cavan Monaghan division.

A 62-year-old man who raped a baby-sitter nearly 30 years ago has succeeded in having his 11-year sentence reduced by four years on appeal.

A South African man has failed in his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his Irish wife at their home in Co Meath more than four years ago.

An appeal by a Dublin man against his murder conviction for running down a 21-year-old man in his car was yesterday dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Two men who attempted an armed robbery on a bookmaker returning from Fairyhouse Racecourse on the day on the Irish Grand National have had their jail sentences reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The jury in the trial of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering another inmate by stabbing him in the heart has failed to reach a verdict.

A Kildare man who kidnapped and raped a Waterford woman in her bedroom while gardaí stood outside the door has been given a ten-year sentence by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

A Roscommon man who raped a baby-sitter over two decades ago has been jailed for 11 years.

A Roscommon man who raped a baby-sitter over two decades ago is scheduled to be sentenced in three weeks.

A Roscommon man has been convicted of raping a babysitter more than two decades ago.

The Roscommon man accused of raping a babysitter over two decades ago has denied her allegations in evidence on day-four of his trial at the Central Criminal Court.

A Roscommon man charged with raping a baby-sitter over two decades ago totally denied her allegations and told gardaí today that he would be remorseful only if he had done all the things she claimed.

The trial has opened in the Central Criminal Court today of a Roscommon man who allegedly raped a then 11-year-old girl more than 25 years ago.

A South African man has been found guilty of murdering his Irish-born wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas, 2004 at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

A man on trial for the murder of his wife was taking antidepressants and drugs to suppress anxiety after his arrest a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The son of a woman whose husband is on trial for her murder, has told a trial in the Central Criminal Court that his mother was afraid of his father.

Judgment has been reserved in a High Court action brought by the owner of an 'adult' shop aimed at quashing the Censor's refusal to grant her a certificate for an 'erotic' pornographic movie.

A Mayo father who raped his teenage daughter has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has been found not guilty of killing his friend in a New Year 's Eve fight a jury in the Central Criminal Court has found.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to hear the trial of Karl Breen who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 21-year-old building labourer Martin McLaughlin.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the four year sentence given to a Latvian man of the manslaughter of a Lithuanian father-of-one whom he stabbed in the neck on the grounds that the term was unduly lenient.

A Wexford single farmer has been given a 10-year sentence by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court for orally and anally raping a young male over a number of years.

A Mayo father has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of raping his teenage daughter.

The Mayo father on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the alleged rape of his teenage daughter has been found not guilty by direction of the judge on 36 of the 56 charges against him.

The Mayo father on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the alleged rape of his teenage daughter agreed with gardaí that he viewed porn videos but denied that he ever touched her.

A man accused of trying to rape a woman in a Donegal lane-way told gardaí he couldn't understand why a girl would start having sex and then start crying.

The jury in the trial of a Waterford man charged with raping a woman almost two years ago has been discharged after the State decided not to proceed with the case by entering a 'nolle prosequi'.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a Donegal man charged with attempted rape.

A Kerry rapist currently serving an eight-year sentence has been jailed for an additional seven years for attempted rape by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

The closing stages have been reached in the trial of a Lithuanian national charged with raping an Eastern European woman in a Cork suburban house two years ago.

The closing astages have been reached in the trial of a Lithuanian national charged with raping an Eastern European woman in a Cork suburban house two years ago.

A Galway man who raped a teenage mother in her home has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

A doctor has told the Central Criminal Court today that he found bruising and slight scratching on the body of an Eastern European woman who claims she was raped by a Lithuanian national in a Cork suburban house.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told that a Lithuanian national who appeared to be "in a drunken stupor" told gardaí sent to Cork city suburban house: "I didn't rape anyone".

An eastern European woman who claims she was raped by a Lithuanian national in Cork has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that he said he did it because he liked to see her "scream and struggle".

A man has been jailed for life after being convicted of shooting down a boxing coach outside his home in Cork.

A 51-year-old Cork man who shot-dead a boxing coach outside his home told gardaí he had intended to kill himself but killed his victim instead because of a "fit of madness," a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Dublin man accused of murdering another man by shooting him at close range in the back of the head told gardai there was a “mad feud” going on in Ballymun but denied he had carried out the killing.

A jailed Kerry rapist will be sentenced on Mary 26 by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court for attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl he met at a Killarney disco on Christmas Eve 2004.

A Kerry man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of attempting to rape a 17-year-old girl in a laneway after meeting her at a nightclub on Christmas Eve two years ago.

Emotions ran high following the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of Padriag Nally at Dublin Central Criminal Court today.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court took just 40 minutes to find an Armagh man not guilty of raping a woman following a wedding reception five years ago.