A convicted Waterford child abuser has been released on bail pending an appeal against his four-year sentence.

Fruit and vegetable importer Paul Begley will have to wait a little longer to find out what his new sentence for a tax fraud will be.

The former head of the country’s biggest fruit and vegetable company must wait to learn if his appeal against his six-year sentence for failing to pay import tax on garlic has been successful after the Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgment.

Two men who killed a young teacher in an attack described as "cowardly, brutal and grossly violent" have had two years added to their sentences by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The Court of Criminal appeal has quashed a man's conviction for the oral rape of a young woman because the judge at his trial referred to matters he should not have in his charge to the jury.

A father-of-four who received a wholly suspended sentence after stabbing one man and violently attacking six others in two "extreme" unprovoked attacks has been jailed for three years following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

BREAD company Brennans has secured a stay on an injunction which restrained it from selling its wholewheat bread in packaging confusingly similar to that of its rival company McCambridge.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has ruled that sentences handed down to two men for killing a Co Clare schoolteacher are too lenient.

A Kerry man who raped his former girlfriend and threatened to kill her during a prolonged attack involving “violence of the most gratuitous nature” has failed in an appeal against his 10-year sentence.

A Cork teenager who appealed against the severity of his six-year sentence for stabbing his uncle to death on the basis that there had been a breach of the separation of powers has seen his bid dismissed at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a British man’s appeal against the severity of a 25-year sentence for possession of cocaine in the state’s largest case of drug smuggling.

The Supreme Court has today granted businessman Jim Kennedy's a stay pending the determination by the Supreme Court of his appeal against the High Court's refusal to stop his trial for allegedly making corrupt payments in relation to the rezoning of lands in Co Dublin.

THE Supreme Court has dismissed, by a majority of three to two, the appeal by building company McInerney against the High Court’s rejection of a rescue plan for the company.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a Dublin man seeking to have his conviction overturned for the double murder of two Polish mechanics.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today heard that the jury who convicted a Dublin man of the double murder of two Polish mechanics arrived at their verdict appropriately, having been given fair and balanced directions by the trial judge.

A Dublin man who was found guilty of the double murder of two Polish mechanics has begun an attempt to have his conviction overturned at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A notorious rapist has failed in an appeal against his conviction for the rape of an 85-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease but has succeeded in having the last two years of his 21-year sentence suspended.

The appeal brought by a rapist against his 21-year sentence for the rape of an 86-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease has been adjourned for more than a week.

A SEVEN-judge Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that property investor Paddy McKillen is entitled to an opportunity to make representations to NAMA before the “bad bank” can decide whether or not to acquire €2.1 billion loans of his companies.

A former chief executive of Ryanair has failed in his appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting a young woman over four years ago.

A Cork man has failed in his appeal against his conviction for the murder of a 62-year-old retired barman over two years ago.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a 47-year-old man appealing against his conviction and sentence for having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl.

A MUSICIAN, a Supreme Court judge, the surgeon who led the team that separated Ireland’s conjoined twins, and a senior executive of a pharmachem giant will be honoured by their former college this week.

The State has succeeded in increasing the sentence handed down to a former garda sergeant who incited a prostitute to find him children to have sex with.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the six-year sentence imposed on a legally blind man who strangled a 60-year-old after calling to his apartment to service his computer.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused a north Dublin businessman leave to appeal against his 10-year sentence for raping a foreign tourist in a Killarney hotel over five years ago.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgment in the application of a Dublin man for leave to appeal against his conviction for killing a taxi driver by stabbing him more than 40 times in full view of his girlfriend and young son.

Garda files relating to two key witnesses in Catherine Nevin’s trial for the murder of her husband were ordered to be disclosured by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

Brothers Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell had their convictions for murdering a father of six overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

President Mary McAleese will appoint Mr Justice Liam McKechnie as a Judge of the Supreme Court later today.

High Court Judge Liam McKechnie has been appointed to the Supreme Court, a government spokesman said today.

A man on trial for the rape and sexual assault of a woman with a history of mental illness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he lied to gardaí when he denied knowing the woman or having contact of a sexual nature with her.

A forensic scientist has told a Central Criminal Court jury that DNA found in the bedroom of a woman who alleges she was raped and sexually assaulted by a neighbour matches that of the accused man.

A Central Criminal Court jury has today acquitted a man of the rape of his wife but found him guilty of assaulting her at a house in Co Meath more than a year ago.

A man has been found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of assaulting his wife at a house in Co Meath more than a year ago.

A man accused of raping and assaulting his wife at a house in Co Meath admitted he had been living at the premises for two months despite a barring order against him being in place.

A next door neighbour of a woman whose husband is accused of raping and assaulting her said she “heard a lot of shouting, screaming and banging” coming from the complainant’s house lasting several hours.

The wife of a man accused of raping and assaulting her admitted she had initially lied to gardaí in a statement saying that her husband had not been living with her at the time the alleged offences took place.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping and assaulting his wife after he had been out drinking.

JARVEYS were yesterday operating in Killarney National Park for the first time in eight months, after agreeing to attach controversial dung catchers to their carriages.

A father-of-one was out on bail for several crimes when he attacked two Polish mechanics with the man who murdered them.

KILLARNEY jarveys are to appeal to the Supreme Court after the High Court ruled they would have to use dung catchers on their horse-drawn carriages.

A HORSE might be poetry in motion, but the motions of a horse did not result in poetic justice for Killarney’s jarveys in the High Court.

KILLARNEY’S jarveys have lost their bid to lift a court order which bars them from entering Killarney National Park until they agree to attach dung catchers.