Two Wexford men who forced their way in to a woman's house and raped her while her young child was in an adjacent room have failed in their attempts to have their convictions and 14-year sentences quashed on appeal.

Two Wexford men who raped a Waterford mother at her home while restraining her with a rope around her neck have been jailed for 14 years by Mr Justice George Bermingham at the Central Criminal Court.

A Wicklow man and his south Dublin accomplice who terrorised a man during a drug fuelled robbery of his home two years ago have each been given a five year prison sentence.

A TRAVELLER has won €4,000 compensation after a pub customer admitted he was getting free beer in return for keeping Travellers out following a ‘riot’.

The scene of a crash in which a father-of-two and a teenager lost their lives was like a bomb site, an inquest heard tonight.

The former girlfriend of a murder accused broke down in court today as she told how the deceased, whom she described as a "blade merchant", threatened to petrol bomb her and her baby.

Mark Woolley, 36, from north London, has been convicted of murdering television costume designer Elizabeth Sherlock.