A Sligo woman who fraudulently claimed her dead father’s pension for six years has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Galway man who claimed he unknowingly smuggled drugs into the country after agreeing to carry home a bag of clothes for a girl he met has received a six-year sentence with one suspended.

Three "silly and stupid" Cork mothers who drove to Dublin on a "day out" to collect cannibis valued €140,000 have been jailed for various terms by Judge Frank O’Donnell.

The Dublin man, whose successful Supreme Court case led to the unlawful carnal knowledge legislation being declared unconstitutional, has failed to appear in court for a mention date of his case.

The brother of the Mulhall sisters, who killed their mother’s African boyfriend in March 2005, has been sentenced to two years in prison for robberies he committed while wielding a knife.

A man paralysed following an assault was among a south Dublin estate gang that earlier attacked a rival group which included one of the two accused men in a trial, a jury has been told.

Two women who tore out another woman’s hair and set it on fire when they were behaving "like mad dogs", have been remanded on continuing bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A convicted fraudster, described as a "brilliant and bright conman", has been given a six-year suspended sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, after he undertook to voluntarily leave the jurisdiction as soon as it could be arranged.

A taximan who subjected three women to a four-hour rape ordeal in his flat has been jailed for 21 years in consecutive sentences by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A man violently attacked a teenage girl on the Nitelink bus during an extremely psychiatric episode following a breakdown suffered at a Tony Quinn seminar, a court has heard.