The case against a Limerick man charged with the murder businessman Roy Collins boils down to the proposition that he “made a run for it” when spotted by gardaí walking with a man against whom there was evidence had carried out the shooting, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Dublin couple who were given a wholly suspended sentence for storing over half a million euro worth of cannabis in their home must wait to learn if their sentence will be increased.

One of six sisters who were allegedly abused as children by their mother's former partner has denied that she was putting on a show after she started crying in court during her testimony.

A 20-year-old woman told a social worker that none of her five sisters knew that the others were being sexually abused during their childhood, a court has heard.

An 18-year-old told a jury today that her mother’s former boyfriend abused her “anytime he got the chance” and forced her to watch adult films.

A father-of-two who had a loaded gun under his mattress for his “own protection” has been sentenced to eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A garda has told a jury he could not identify himself in CCTV footage recorded outside the home of a father and son accused of threatening to have his colleague shot.

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.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the 10-year sentence handed down to a former soldier who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl over a four-year period.

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.

The teenager who killed two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver, told gardaí that he had seen his co-accused carry out the stabbings.

A friend of two Polish men’s killer came up with an alibi for him hours after he stabbed the mechanics in their heads.

A teenager who stabbed two mechanics in their heads had spent the day taking drugs and drinking alcohol and had been stabbed himself days earlier.

A Latvian man who was convicted of raping a fellow national in a Dublin laneway over two years ago has been given a seven-year sentence by the Central Criminal Court.

A 24-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of the murder of a Wexford man on Easter Sunday morning two years ago.

A Dublin man accused of murder stabbed the wrong man to death, his barrister told the jury at his trial in the Central Criminal Court.

The best friend of a man accused of murder said he saw him "go mad" and stab the 37-year-old victim "for nothing", the Central Criminal Court heard.

A cocaine-addicted father who was caught with almost €140,000 in cannabis resin has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The former girlfriend of a Dublin man accused of murder has told a jury that she saw him stab the victim on Easter Sunday morning two years ago in a Wexford caravan park.

A friend of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father's house after celebrating her birthday has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he saw the pair kissing earlier in the night.

A Tipperary woman has denied "kissing or cuddling" with a family friend she accuses of raping her as she slept in her father's house hours after she had been celebrating her 19th birthday.

A chronic heroin addict who robbed one premises twice in four days during a spate of eight armed robberies has been given a 10 year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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 Louth man told a close friend that he had cut another man's throat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A forensic witness in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Co Louth man accused of stabbing another man in the neck with a shard of glass has said that blood-stained clothing belonging to the accused could have been consistent with him checking the victim's pulse.

A nurse convicted of poisoning and assaulting patients in a hospital had been branded "a killer" by sections of the media, her counsel said when her sentence was adjourned by Judge Frank O’Donnell.

A nurse has been convicted by a jury of assaulting two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital and of poisoning one of them three years ago.

A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.

A hospital care assistant has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that she saw a nurse on trial for allegedly poisoning patients "quite forcefully and quite roughly" give an injection to an elderly patient.

A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq following the outbreak of war in 2003.

A man who falsely imprisoned and threatened to kill two female employees during a video shop robbery has been jailed for six years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Chinese man who robbed three fellow nationals at knifepoint after he went to view a room in their house in Lucan has been jailed for four years.