A man has been given a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman as she slept at a party.

A man has been given a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman as she slept at a party.

A Shelbourne soccer fan who punched and kicked a 16-year-old Cork City fan during a post-match brawl has had his sentencing adjourned.

A Dublin man who tried to set fire to his rented flat on Halloween night by igniting aerosol cans has received a suspended sentence today.

A convicted child molester who sexually assaulted two Limerick girls on the LUAS while they were en-route to a Rihanna concert will be sentenced in January.

A man who became trapped in the attic of a house he broke into has been jailed for 18 months.

A Dublin man will be sentenced next week for his role in trying to make a female college student have sex with her male housemates after breaking into their home with a hammer and hacksaw.

A drug addict who briefly drove a Dublin Bus after assaulting the driver and later committed a robbery has been given a three-and-a-half-year sentence.

A Dublin man who got into bed on top of an elderly widow and tried to pull up her night dress after dropping her home from a local party has received a three year suspended sentence.

The brother of a man who hanged himself in garda custody will be sentenced later for possessing weapons in an overcrowded car in Dublin city centre.

A robber who raided a bookmakers armed with a plastic handgun in order to pay off a debt has been given a five-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A part-time childcare worker received a two-year sentence with 18 months suspended for stabbing a parked motorist in a case of mistaken identity.

Three men caught with cocaine and heroin valued at €1.4m in a garda drugs operation have been jailed for three and eight-year terms by Judge Katherine Delahunt for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A chronic alcoholic who hit a man he saw talking to his wife over the head with a barstool has been given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former roofer has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing heroin valued €6,000 in March of last year.

A Westmeath “rampant addict” who picked up a van loaded with heroin valued €1.6m because of his €25,000 “drugs debt” has had his sentence adjourned so that he can be psychologically assessed.

An retired man running a "forgery factory" making fake bank statements and payslips for loan applications, car documentation and ID cards has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A convicted killer who is serving a life sentence has been jailed for 18 months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a house burglary he committed an hour before he murdered a Chinese student.

A deaf and dumb Czech national who sexually assaulted an Estonian girl after grabbing her on a public street in Dublin and pulling her down a laneway has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A Dublin man who had unlawful carnal knowledge charges against him dropped after problems arose with the legislation has had his sentence for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a "parody of love" adjourned.

A Lebanese convicted sex offender with an Australian address, who attacked four women over two days while he was in Ireland attending a wedding, has been sentenced to two years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Co Westmeath man has been convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of sexually assaulting three young girls and has been remanded for sentence later by Judge Joseph Matthews.

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 north Wicklow man who sexually abused two nieces over 30 years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill at the Central Criminal Court.

A man kicked and punched his estranged wife to the ground and then threw a car battery at her because he didn't like how she answered a question, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.