A homeless man has been sentenced to five years in prison for robbing an elderly Dublin couple of cash that they had just withdrawn to pay for a family holiday.

A jury has been sworn in the trial of a former Anglo Irish Bank official on conspiracy charges.

A grandfather who became involved in a violent incident in a pet shop after his son got into a dispute about a parking space has been jailed for 18 months.

A man who consumed alcohol against medical advice told gardaí arresting him for possession of a knife that he was Garth Brooks and was “into line dancing,” a court has heard.

A former Bank of Ireland worker has been jailed for one year for stealing €144,000 from the bank between 2004 and 2012.

A car linked to an alleged tiger kidnapper was spotted by gardaí near the scene of the crime shortly beforehand, a trial has heard.

Former businessman Breifne O’Brien, who was jailed for inducing others to advance millions of euro to him for investment in bogus property deals, is seeking to pursue an appeal to the Supreme Court.

A pensioner who stole over €100,000 by using her sister’s social welfare card to fraudulently collect her benefits for 12 years has been remanded on bail pending sentence in June.

A young man who knocked a girl unconscious with a “ferocious dig in the face” after a name calling incident has been ordered to do community service in lieu of a prison sentence.

Two former Anglo Irish Bank executives convicted of conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by Revenue did not receive a fair trial, the Court of Appeal was told yesterday.

A Co Meath insurance broker who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud has been ordered to perform 240 hours unpaid work in the community in addition to a four-year suspended sentence.

The DNA of a man accused of raping a woman with Down syndrome matches DNA taken from semen found on the woman.

A 34-year-old man accused of raping a woman with Down syndrome told gardaí after his arrest that he had never heard of the condition.

A man who allowed his bank account to be used in a Electric Picnic tickets scam is to be sentenced in January.

A seven-year sentence imposed on a man who was four times over the limit when he crashed his BMW into a roundabout killing a female passenger and paralysing her friend was “out of line” with other sentences for dangerous driving, the Court of Appeal has found.

A Meath insurance broker who took out 38 fictitious policies in order to be paid commission totalling €109,000 will be sentenced in October.

An army corporal who told gardaí he bought cannabis to ease the pain of his dying wife has avoided a criminal conviction.

A man who was four times over the alcohol limit when he crashed his BMW into a roundabout killing a woman and paralysing her friend has moved to appeal his seven-year prison sentence.

A man who threw a pint glass at a woman attending his child’s christening and left the victim with scars and nerve damage to her eye has been jailed for 18 months.

A professional gambler from Leitrim who head-butted a garda attempting to protect him has been given a partly suspended sentence.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick is to apply to the State to pay his legal fees from his recent criminal trial.

A former in-house lawyer for Morgan Stanley has told a court the English financial regulator deferred to the Irish regulator in relation to the so called “Maple Transaction” in July 2008.

Developer says bank good to him and his business

A drug addict stole nearly €15,000 worth of computer and office equipment and then sold it on for €100, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A former barrister who left over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” voicemail messages on a younger colleague’s mobile phone has been sentenced to three years.

A former barrister is to be sentenced for leaving over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” voicemail messages on a younger colleague’s mobile phone.

A former barrister will be sentenced next week after he left over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” voicemail messages on a younger colleague’s mobile phone.

A 49-year-old barrister has pleaded guilty mid-trial to harassing a younger colleague over a four-year period.

A jury has heard over 60 voicemail messages which a barrister allegedly left on a younger colleague’s phone some of which stated “I want you to be my boyfriend” and one advising the man that he was being watched when he was in the bathroom.

A 49-year-old barrister has gone on trial having been accused of harassing a younger colleague.

A woman who stabbed a doorman after watching her sister perform at a 'Dublin’s Got Talent' competition has been ordered to pay compensation to the victim.

An alleged victim of sexual abuse has told a Central Criminal Court jury that the accused never denied the allegations to his face and admitted them in front of the accused’s own sons.

THE Irish Examiner and the Irish Times have been found to be in technical contempt of court following the publication of court reports which led to the collapse of the trial of former GP, Dr Paschal Carmody.

A SENIOR medic agreed the results of the care given by former GP Paschal Carmody to nine terminally ill cancer patients were “exceptional”.

A man has been jailed for three years for sneaking into his estranged wife’s bedroom and threatening to slit her throat before assaulting her.

A Dublin Circuit Court judge has ordered that over €100,000 seized from a Tallaght taxi driver as part of a garda investigation into drug dealing be handed over to the State.

A Lithuanian national who killed his best friend in a drunken row has been jailed for nine years by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.