The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing Offaly publican Matt Farrell has been told by a judge to treat the evidence of a “jailhouse informant” with care and caution.

A former professional soccer player has admitted he confessed to raping his daughter but only so her mother would “calm down”.

A retired garda sergeant has revealed the Wicklow businessman accused of raping and indecently assaulting a schoolgirl over 30 years ago told him he couldn’t deny the allegations when arrested.

A Cork man who was jailed for 10 years for drug dealing has had the last 18 months of his sentence suspended by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A former Marist brother and primary school teacher who was convicted of 35 charges of sexual abuse against four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago has received a 12-month sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the prison sentence imposed on a Dublin man who kidnapped and raped a Spanish au pair after it ruling that comments made at the his sentencing hearing by Mr Justice Paul Carney were "inappropriate"and "indefensible."