Mary Lowry visited a psychic to see if would help when her boyfriend Bobby "Mr Moonlight" Ryan disappeared, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man who allowed others to lodge cheques into his bank account has pleaded guilty to possession of around €50,000 in criminal profits, a court has heard.

A forensic anthropologist has told the Patrick Quirke murder trial that he identified human and animal bones and an animal's tooth found in the tank alongside Bobby Ryan's body.

Murder accused Patrick Quirke denied to gardaí that he was trying to "take Mary Lowry to the cleaners" by demanding €20,000 from her or that he took advantage when she was vulnerable following her husband's death, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A google search for "human body decomposition timeline" was carried out on a computer that was seized from murder accused Patrick Quirke's premises, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The barrister for a Kilkenny man, charged with murdering his nephew’s friend, has suggested that what happened was an accident and a tragic set of circumstances that could never be legislated for.

The barrister for a man charged with murdering another man in his home has suggested that his client was trying to wrestle the knife from his self-harming nephew when it entered the deceased man’s chest.

A Dublin man who sexually abused four sisters in their home has had his prison sentence cut on appeal.

A judge has agreed to give one last chance to a convicted sex offender who poses a risk to public safety.

A Central Criminal Court jury has acquitted a man of raping a woman on a first date after they met on Tinder.

A man died when a knife pierced his heart during a "violent and frenzied" attack, a pathologist has told a murder trial.

A Limerick man jailed for life for the murder of a 71-year-old retired soldier, who he knew and whose fires he would light in his home, has moved to appeal his conviction.

An unaccompanied learner driver who was speeding when he hit and killed a teenager has been jailed for nine months.

Lawyers for a Ballymun man jailed for his role in an attempted robbery have claimed his trial was unfair because the State “cleansed” the jury of people from Ballymun, Cabra and Finglas.

A Limerick man who sexually abused his daughter while she was aged between 13 and 16 years old has been jailed for seven years.

The Court of Appeal will not review Wayne Dundon’s prison sentence for making threats to kill and intimidating witnesses, despite claims that his six-year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

A 17-year-old who conned 22 people out of over €8,500 through a scheme of advertising non-existent concert tickets and iPhones online has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

A 36-year-old Cork man who sexually abused his sister during their childhood and teens has been given a five-year sentence.

A father of two who left an elderly priest with a fractured skull and multiple facial cuts after he attacked him with an iron bar in his home has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A Detective Garda has reiterated his evidence in the case of a two brothers accused of murdering a Co Offaly farmer, telling the Central Criminal Court he heard one of the accused say: "I hit him, you can arrest and charge me," when he arrived at the scene.