A convicted rapist has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempting to murder a Wicklow man in front of his wife and children, failing only because his shotgun cartridges were damp.

The lawyer for a Traveller, charged with murdering a man he found inside his mobile home, has told his trial jury that Travellers could be victims of burglaries too and that the law provided latitude to homeowners in that situation.

A mother of one has been sentenced to three years in prison for staging her housemate’s suicide in order to impede the prosecution of the man who strangled her.

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

The neo-nazi who the accused says strangled her housemate has not been charged. He is being spoon fed as a result of a traumatic brain injury sustained while fleeing after a car he had hijacked crashed.

A consultant in emergency medicine earlier testified that Gerard Boyle might have died and presented a ‘surgical emergency’ on admission to hospital that night.

The son of a 62-year-old man beaten to death by a man half his age has said he cannot stop thinking of him drowning in his own blood with nobody to help him, writes Natasha Reid.

An Irish man described by the FBI as the world’s ’largest facilitator of child pornography’ is making a legal bid aimed at halting his extradition to the United States.

A jury has heard closing speeches in the trial of a Dublin man, charged with murdering a 62-year-old by punching him until he admitted to a sexual assault that the accused had been told he had committed.

The 42-year-old’s trial was in its sixth day at the Central Criminal Court.

YOUR 2-year-old upends his bowl of soggy cornflakes, putting it squarely on top of his head.

POLICE in London said they have charged almost 600 people with violence, disorder and looting over deadly riots in Britain’s capital, as the city’s mayor said Londoners wanted to see “significant sentences” handed out to the guilty.

A GRADUATE who hoped to become a social worker has admitted she stole a TV set during the rioting.

They came in their hundreds in the UK to queue in the winter air for a chance to become one of the last ever members of the 'Big Brother' household.