The prosecution has said a 59-year-old homeless man suffered a particularly horrible death trapped head down in a rubbish chute - but the defence said the accused believed the victim would fall through the chute into a bin.

Patrick Hutch, who is accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel more than two years ago, has launched High Court proceedings over his transfer from one prison facility to another.

A journalist has told the Charleton Tribunal she would not consider sources who provided factual statements about a Garda investigation into allegations against Sgt Maurice McCabe to be smearing the sergeant.

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has told the Charleton Tribunal she “did not feel comfortable” in the presence of former garda press officer Superintendent David Taylor, and at “times he appeared to be a divisive individual”.

A detective sergeant has identified Frederick 'Freddie' Thompson as the man in one of four ‘spotter’ cars allegedly used in the killing of a Dublin shoe shop manager.

Fugitive struck-off solicitor Michael Lynn is due to be extradited from Brazil next week, the High Court heard today.

The couple’s 11-year-old son struck the attacker with a kitchen brush, which broke, in an effort to help his father.

An award of €900,000 was made yesterday to the family of a 42-year-old man fatally injured while training for a charity cycle in Kerry in aid of people with Down Syndrome.

The kind of premeditated manipulation practised with great skill by sex offenders also works on the friends, priests and TDs who are so often called on to write references, writes Clodagh Finn

Former tánaiste Joan Burton has denied she left out any reference to “water protesters” in her statement to gardaí because she wanted to make the protesters out as a “disorganised rabble”.

The Vietnam war and Lyndon B Johnson put in appearances at the Jobstown trial yesterday. It’s all a long, long way from a west Dublin enclave and water charges, but such is the meandering journey of this unique trial.

A former Sinn Féin councillor waterboarded and threatened to kill a man who he believed was trying to defraud him, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A former Sinn Féin Councillor and his father have pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to falsely imprisoning and threatening to kill another man.

One man was imprisoned for life while another will be sentenced next Monday for their part in killing a man during an argument over a pedigree chihuahua.

One man was convicted of murder and a second of manslaughter for killing a man with an axe during an argument over a pedigree chihuahua.

A man was killed with a hatchet in a row over a pedigree chihuahua that failed to father enough pups, the Central Criminal Court was told.

The murder charges against seven Dubliners have been dropped, after five of them pleaded guilty to Dale Creighton’s manslaughter and their two co-accused pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Denis Casey began his career in 1976 working for Allied Irish Finance Company Limited.

An internet firm has gone on trial accused of wrongly billing smartphone web users for premium services and apps.

An autistic man who beat his mother to death in a “very sad case, with a sad background narrative”, has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

A Wicklow man who raped and sexually assaulted two of his stepsons hundreds of times over a 10-year period has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, with the final seven suspended.

An autistic man beat his mother to death because he could not cope with the stress of moving home, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A landmark High Court ruling yesterday opens the way for certain prisoners to argue they are unlawfully detained — but many experts predict the numbers involved are quite small.

Two men caught with loaded handguns and a can of petrol with “an intent to endanger life” following a large-scale garda operation will be sentenced next week.

A film actor who starred in the Love/Hate TV series has been jailed for four and a half years after he admitted carrying out a €50,000 armed robbery.

A man jailed for the robbery of a post office faces a retrial because evidence on the alleged ownership of a motorbike used in the robbery was taken from the Garda Pulse system.

A decision will be made next month in the case of an Englishman who successfully appealed his 30-year prison sentence for his role in the biggest drug seizure in the history of the State.

A man convicted in connection with the biggest drugs haul in the history of the State has appealed his 30-year sentence.

A Wicklow man is to be sentenced next year for raping and sexually assaulting two boys hundreds of times and for making them commit incest with each other.

Michael started life as a journalist. He worked for Hot Press, writing news-based stories, and eventually moved to Magill. He was at the stage of securing a staff job, but he’d always wanted to study law.

A leading criminal barrister has said the creation of a second non-jury court was a “reasonable response” to tackling the 20-month waiting list at the existing Special Criminal Court.

A restaurateur jailed for importing cannabis worth €79,000 has had his appeal against conviction dismissed.

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From defending crime bosses in the real world to writing about them in a fictional one, Michael O’Higgins gives us an authentic take on policing and the law, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

A Cork judge erred in sentencing an Englishman to 30 years imprisonment for his role in the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the State, the Court of Criminal Appeal has found.

A man whose conviction for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend was quashed in March faces a third trial for her killing, despite an appeal by his lawyers that a second retrial would not be justified.

Legal costs, paid for by the State, associated with the 14-day trial of a 23-year-old man who denied killing a father of four who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012 have amounted to just under €70,000.

A 23-year-old man who had denied being involved in a fatal hit and run admitted being responsible for the accident, soon after a guilty verdict was returned against him following a month-long trial.

Judge’s charges

A series of text messages, sent to friends by an accused man in a hit- and-run case, has been read out to a jury.

The State has dropped a charge of possession of €2.5m worth of ecstasy against a man in light of last week’s Court of Appeal ruling.