Charges against a couple, accused of lying to the Garda Síochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), were yesterday struck out by a judge who criticised some garda witnesses.

Heartfelt tributes were paid to the late Ballyshannon-based Sergeant Michael Galvin yesterday, on a day when Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan paid a private visit to boost morale in the shell-shocked station.

A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A man has been accused of a series of gross sex offences against a child.

A judge has ruled that a male nurse who admitted placing surgical tape across a patient’s mouth be given the Probation Act.

A judge found that a male nurse who put surgical tape on a patient’s mouth was overworked and under serious stress with inadequate management support in a HSE hospital.

The State sought bail of €5.8m yesterday to free one of the world’s largest fishing ships, the Dutch-owned Annelies Ilena, formerly the Killybegs-owned Atlantic Dawn.

A man convicted of harassing women reoffended just 10 days after a court warning that his freedom was hanging by a thread, a prosecutor claimed yesterday.

A judge yesterday told a 20-year-old motorist that his drunk and dangerous driving caused “the death of an unborn baby” of a pregnant garda.

A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Eugene Gillespie in Sligo.

The judge who ordered a €2.50 drinks price minimum in three seaside resort clubs has been told one breached the spirit of his ruling by not charging for mixers with shorts.

Clubowners in a price war in Bundoran, Co Donegal, were accused yesterday of believing they were “above the law”.

The top garda in the North-West was attacked in his car twice as his wife and daughter looked on in horror.

A lawyer has said a price war between rival bar-owning cousins, with one selling cocktails for as little as 50c and another offering as much as customers could drink for €20, was in danger of putting a teenager in the morgue.

A Traveller women in court for driving with a mobile phone told a judge she could not have been holding one as her culture would not have allowed her to have one until she was married.

A JUDGE was given a brief account yesterday of how to bake cannabis cakes.

THE High Court has found a district court judge who had previously acted as a defence lawyer for a man who later appeared before him on drink-driving charges may have found it difficult to bring “an open mind” to the case.

AS someone who is involved in animal welfare I was heartened to see Judge Kilrane’s decision to keep James Curley in custody for his heartless neglect of his animals.

A JUDGE yesterday accused a 26-year-old man of nearly beating his two-month baby “into a pulp” in a row during which he kicked his girlfriend six times.

A GARDA who was prosecuted for obtaining false loss of earning certificates for a witness in a prosecution against the McBreartys did not consider it a big sin when he did it, a solicitor said yesterday.

A garda who was prosecuted for obtaining false loss of earning certificates for a witness in a prosecution against the McBreartys did not consider it a big sin when he did it, a solicitor said today.