A father and son have appeared in court today charged in connection with a violent burglary and false imprisonment of three elderly siblings, and a separate aggravated robbery on a family of six.

Convicted terrorist Michael McKevitt has brought fresh legal proceedings aimed at securing his early release from Portlaoise Prison.

A man who carried out a violent and unprovoked attack on a random stranger has avoided jail today.

Lawyers for an alleged terrorist facing extradition to the United States say he may end up in a supermax prison in Colorado described by a former warden 'as a clean version of hell'.

A son of Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa, who is charged with assaulting his father, is fit to stand trial, a judge was told today.

A son of Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa, who is charged with assaulting his father, is to spend Christmas on remand in the Central Mental Hospital.

A SON of Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa, who is charged with assaulting his father, was “not fit” to attend his court hearing yesterday as he is receiving “ongoing psychiatric treatment”.

A Co Louth man, who three years ago was found guilty by a Spanish court of the manslaughter of his wife, has had extradition proceedings against him further adjourned for a week.