The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

The trial of a Polish man accused of raping and sexually assaulting a Galway woman as she was walking home from her local pub has reached its final stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A 27-year-old man has been given a life sentence at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to murdering his girlfriend in Galway two years ago.

Two Travellers charged with triple attempted murder were acquitted on all charges at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" march in Dublin has claimed he was justified in striking a protester three times in the "upper body" but denies he ever hit a protester in the head.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘Bed and Breakfast’ establishment in Baldoyle to the ground, will start a drug rehabilitation course next week.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘B&B’ in Baldoyle to the ground, has been given a chance to escape jail.

A mentally-ill man accused of killing his father in a frenzied knife attack because he thought he was the devil was too deluded to stop himself, a court heard today.

A Limerick man convicted yesterday of membership of the Continuity IRA worked in Templemore garda training college, Dublin Castle and banks throughout Munster, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Gardai in Limerick had information that the Continuity IRA was hiring out guns to criminal elements in the city, a detective garda told the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court will rule tomorrow on an application to halt the trial of seven men accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Continuity IRA, over what the defence claims is prejudicial evidence.