Paul Carney, the former criminal law judge who presided over some of the most high profile and controversial cases in recent decades, died yesterday at the age of 72 after a short illness.

A man discovered with his trousers and underwear around his ankles in a toilet in an enclosed nuns' monastery is to get a suspended sentence on very strict conditions from Judge Joseph Matthews.

THE country’s top criminal judge, Mr Justice Paul Carney, has been announced as the new adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at University College Cork.