A Meath man has been jailed for two years for the rape and sexual assault of his younger sister on their family farm and home which has been described as “a house where sexual abuse was culture”.

A former publican who claimed an ex-AIB investment manager defrauded her has lost a High Court action claiming losses and damages.

Two nurses have had their registration suspended for six months, plus conditions attached to their registration for a further two years, in connection with the death of an elderly patient in hospital in 2006 while in a chair with a restraint belt.

Two nurses have had their resgistration suspended for six months, plus conditions attached to their registration for a further two years, in conneciton with the death of an elderly patient in hospital in 2006 while in a chair with a restraint belt.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost his High Court action over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs after he had got court injunctions restraining RTÉ publicising that information.

The exceptional bravery of a 10-year-old boy who clung to the window of a moving 4x4 to rescue his sister has been commended.

Prosecutors have told the Court of Appeal that the four-year sentence imposed on a 26-year-old man whose dangerous driving caused the deaths of eight people was too lenient.

The costs associated with the marathon Graham Dwyer murder trial has helped push the lawyer bill for the first six months of this year for the Director of Public Prosecutions to over €7.4m.

DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.

A forensic scientist told a murder trial jury yesterday that a mark on lino in a house where two women were killed 18 years ago was likely to have been made by a Caterpillar brand boot.

The lead lawyers in the Graham Dwyer murder trial are two of the most in-demand criminal lawyers in the country.

Garda outlines horrific scene at site of Grangegorman murders

The trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly is "the first case in the history of the state" where a tracking device has been mentioned, a senior garda told the Special Criminal Court today.

A Kildare man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl believing her to be her 16-year-old sister has avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three members of the State’s prosecution team in the long-running Anglo trial are the top three best-paid barristers by the DPP for the first six months of this year.

A man stabbed his mother 10 times with a kitchen knife and then kicked her and beat her with a brush handle until it broke as she lay on the ground, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Castlebar heard yesterday.

The three leading defence counsel in the Anglo trial shared over €1m (including Vat) in State fees for their work in the criminal courts.

An electrician has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a bread delivery man in a Limerick petrol station three years ago.

The jury is due to begin deliberating in the trial of an electrician accused of the fatal shooting of a bread deliveryman in Limerick three years ago.

A 33-year-old Limerick man charged with murder has admitted that he can be seen discharging four gunshots on CCTV footage of the killing.

A 33-year-old Limerick man charged with murder has admitted that he can be seen discharging four gunshots on CCTV footage of the killing.

A 33-year-old Limerick man has gone on trial, accused of the murder of Martin Purcell, who was found dead with 41 stab wounds at his home.

The trial of the former chairman and two former directors of Anglo Irish Bank could run for over three months and involves 24m documents in evidence, a court has heard.

The investigation by the director of corporate enforcement into the 2008 collapse of the former Anglo Irish Bank has been exten-ded for another year by the High Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of three Northern Ireland men appealing against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

The leading barrister who shot to prominence for her cross-examination of Sharon Collins, aka “Lying Eyes”, was the best paid senior prosecutor in the country last year, new figures from the DPP show.

The trial of two Louth men on firearms and IRA membership charges has opened at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that two men on trial for murdering a French man in Bray, went to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and shot him through the window as they slept in bed.

Lawyers for the State have told the jury in the case of a butcher on trial for murdering a shopkeeper during a robbery, that he deliberately stabbed the man through the chest as “a means to an end”.

A Limerick mother cried in the witness box today as she recalled hearing her son being shot dead from her bed in the early hours of his 40th birthday.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin has reserved judgment in the trial of three Northern Ireland men arrested during a garda investigation into dissident republican activity who are accused of IRA membership.

Door staff at a Letterkenny nightclub received no approach for work from any of three men from the North accused of membership of the IRA in the hours before their arrest, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Garda ballistics expert has told the Special Criminal Court that an air pistol found in a car in which three Northern Ireland men charged with membership of the IRA were travelling when arrested is not a “BB” gun.

The trial of three men from the North men charged with membership of the IRA has heard that none of the accused were under surveillance before their arrest.

The trial of three men from the North, charged with membership of the IRA, has been adjourned until tomorrow.

Gardaí investigating dissident republican activity in Co Donegal last February found cable ties in a car and arrested three men from the North, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.

A young Dublin man who viciously assaulted an ex-girlfriend in his car after a night drinking has been remanded in custody with consent to bail to allow him to attend for drug treatment.

A young Dublin man will be sentenced at a later date for viciously assaulting an ex-girlfriend in his car after a night's drinking.

A young man has gone on trial for alleged people trafficking and holding a false document at Dublin Airport two years ago.

A Latvian man has gone on trial accused of dangerous driving causing the death of an elderly woman in a car accident between Portmarnock and Malahide last year.

“EXTRAORDINARY and bizarre.”

A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons has denied writing the emails that plotted the killing.