The High Court is demanding an explanation as to why a Co Offaly businessman has not been jailed for breaching a court order.

The founder of a pirate radio station in Dublin, Eamon 'Captain' Cooke, has lost his appeal against his conviction on 42 counts of indecent assault against two young girls in the 1970s.

A Dublin man accused of fatally stabbing another man has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that the knife had fallen out of the victim's pocket.

A 19-year-old Dublin man who died from a fatal stabbing after hitting another man over the head with a bottle had a previous conviction for assault, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.