Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm has been granted free legal aid for his upcoming conspiracy to defraud trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A sports top and gloves found near the home of a man accused of a fatal shooting had firearms residue on them, a trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Tipperary man who began sexually abusing his niece while she was in her First Holy Communion dress almost three decades ago has been jailed for 10 years for rape and indecent assault.

The Irish economy’s pick-up continues to feed, and be fed by, new restaurant openings in Carrigaline and Midleton, with established operators to the fore.

A Wexford man has been sentenced to ten years in prison with the final three suspended for raping a Kildare woman while she slept.

Two men and a woman “caught red-handed” with more than €1.3m worth of heroin and cannabis in a targeted garda operation have been jailed for between three and seven years.

Tommy Barker visits a fine, venerable Bandon property, once home to a swashbuckling adventurer, now home to a doyenne of cafe business

A man who raped his wife's 14-year-old sister has being given a suspended sentence after a judge ruled that imprisonment would impose extreme hardship on the rapist’s family.

The trial of a man accused of the manslaughter of an Offaly publican has today heard that none of the DNA profiles found at the scene matched that of the accused.

The trial of a man accused of the manslaughter of an Offaly publican two years ago has heard how a witness walked into a garda station and told gardaí he knew who the killer was.

THE customer might be king, but don’t get Mary Rose going on the royal pain that is coffee choices.

TRAIPSING through a sea of organic and eye-catching produce untainted by genetic modification, John Gormley yesterday visited what could be seen as the spiritual home of the Greens.

A former Dublin priest has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of the sexual assault and buggery of a young boy almost 30 years ago.

A Dutch national who was caught carrying €200,000 worth of cannabis in Spiderman and Hannah Montana wrapping paper at Dublin airport has been given a six year sentence.

A former Marist brother and primary school teacher has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of 35 charges of sexually abusing four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago.

The trial of a former Marist brother and primary school teacher has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former underage soccer team coach who sexually abused four boys during the 1990s has received a four-year sentence with one suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager who set fire to a car wash in a petrol station and robbed the same shop 18 months later armed with a golf club has been sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan.

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.

TWO mothers. Between them they have three children with special needs; two in wheelchairs, one tube-fed - all desperately dependent on their doctor who is about to depart.