A garda has revealed that a Galway man denied all of his sister’s sex abuse allegations and could not say why she would accuse him of rape.

A 21-year-old Dublin man has been given a five-year sentence for having sex with his underage cousin and sexually abusing her and her younger sister at their granny’s house.

THE Evening Herald newspaper was found in contempt of court during the Eamonn Lillis murder trial after it published the name of the accused’s daughter in breach of a court order.

EAMONN LILLIS told the woman he was seeing before his wife died that she banged her head during a row they had over his not taking out the rubbish, she told his murder trial.

FOR someone cast unwillingly in the national spotlight in spectacular and tragic circumstances, Jean Treacy presented a calm, self-assured appearance as she gave evidence at the Eamonn Lillis murder trial.

Eamonn Lillis told the woman he was seeing before his wife died that she banged her head during a row they had over his not taking out the rubbish, she told his murder trial.

A DUBLIN businessman accused of murdering his wife had begun an extra-marital affair just months before his wife’s violent death at their luxury home in Howth, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to try 51-year-old Eamonn Lillis, who is charged with murdering his wife in North Dublin just over a year ago.

A Dundalk man was arrested after the car in which he was a passenger tried to drive through a garda roadblock, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A cocaine addict with a history of serious drug offences has been jailed for 12 years for possessing €1m worth of heroin in a car at the M50 Toll Plaza outside Dublin.

A Monaghan truck driver who delivered over €3 million worth of herbal cannabis to a Dublin industrial estate has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan.

The trial of a Dundalk man accused of INLA membership dramatically collapsed at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today after it emerged that a Special Branch detective driver for the presiding judge was a witness in the case.

Detectives found garda uniforms, bulletproof vests and an extendable baton in a car they stopped in Dundalk just before Christmas 2007, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard today that a young Drogheda man accused of murder “directed” a knife at the father of the child he was babysitting after a row had broken out.

A young Drogheda man accused of murdering the father of the child he was babysitting was “very aggressive, swinging knives”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A young Drogheda man fatally stabbed the father of the young girl he and his girlfriend were babysitting, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A YOUNG plasterer was murdered by two men near his home in Cork shortly after the victim had a row with his ex-girlfriend, the prosecution claimed at the outset of a trial yesterday.

A teenager accused of murdering another teenager outside his house on Dublin's Waterloo Road, told gardaí he had not meant to stab the deceased man, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A south Dublin teenager told gardaí that he had stabbed another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Westmeath "rampant addict" who collected a van loaded with heroin valued at €1.6 m because of his €25,000 "drugs debt" has had been jailed for seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Kildare man who kidnapped and raped a Waterford woman in her bedroom while gardaí stood outside the door has been given a ten-year sentence by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

Two Dublin men pleaded guilty to firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court today.

A Waterford man “rehearsed” his admission of INLA membership with gardaí, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Waterford man accused of INLA membership illegally took a mobile phone into a cell while in garda custody, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of two Waterford men accused of INLA membership began today at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder of a Jordanian man who he shot in the head at the Leisureplex in Dublin's Blanchardstown.

A Dublin man has been found guilty of attempting to murder a Jordanian man by shooting him in the head at a Leisureplex in Dublin's Blanchardstown by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man accused of attempting to murder a Jordanian man by shooting him in the head at a Leisureplex in Dublin's Blanchardstown, told gardai he was with his girlfriend on the night of the attack at the Central Criminal Court today/ Thursday.

A Jordanian man who claims an Irishman attempted to murder him by firing shots at him in the Leisureplex in Dublin’s Blanchardstown has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that gardaí once searched his house for firearms.

A Dublin man had to be restrained by gardaí after he was convicted by a jury of the murder of Ian McConnell, who was shot at close range in the back of the head at a Ballymun tower block in December 2005.

A Dublin man accused of murdering another man by shooting him in the back of the head looked like he had been out on drugs all night and was in the possession of a bag of cocaine and tablets before he was interviewed by gardaí, his older brother has told a jury at the Central Criminal.

A court today turned down an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of prison sentences given to two Dublin men who were jailed for an intended Continuity IRA pipe bomb attack on the city's northside.

A computer technician who had what gardaí described as "the vilest and most horrendous ever" images of child porn has been jailed for three years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A computer technician who had what gardaí described as "the vilest and most horrendous ever" images of child porn has been remanded in custody for sentence by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who fired a gun through the window of a house because one of its occupants was late repaying him a €100 loan has been given a six year sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Charges against a garda accused of possessing child pornography have been dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Michael White has advised that the Director of Public Prosecutions should instigate an investigation into the publishing by Ireland on Sunday of an article giving intricate details of the upcoming trial of a garda accused of possessing child pornography.

A teenager who sexually assaulted the young daughter of his foster family on several occasions over a three-year period has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 38-year-old man on trial for murdering his mother was suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the killing, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 38-year-old man on trial for murdering his mother told gardaí he battered her to death because she was domineering and "wrecking" his head, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Nigerian who burnt his two-year-old son’s face with boiling water and fractured it has been given a two years suspended sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal.

Recently-convicted Jacqui Noble and Paul Hopkins were refused leave to appeal their sentences for the murder of Derek Benson in the Central Criminal court today.

A Dublin woman accused of murdering her violent partner sobbed in the witness box in the Central Criminal Court today as she detailed years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse by the deceased.

A woman accused of hiring an alleged killer to murder to violent partner told gardaí she had previously paid another man to have him shot, the Central Criminal Court heard today.