The jury in the trial of an Offaly farmer charged with raping and sexually assaulting his niece over an eight year period has started its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court.

The first cousin of an alleged rape victim has said that as a 13-year-old she told her she was having sex with two men who were friends of her parents.

A Co Offaly woman has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she willingly had sex with her uncle when she was 17 years old.

The prosecution today began outlining its case in the trial of a Co Offaly farmer, who has gone on trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting his then 12-year-old niece over an eight-year period.

A man who told his partner’s 13-year-old daughter he was only wasting his time if she didn’t enjoy him raping her has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

Two Kildare men who had heroin valued almost €160,000 at the Lucan Spa Hotel have been jailed by Judge Anthony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The founder of the illegal Radio Dublin pirate station has been jailed for 10 years for sexually assaulting young girls at his home some 30 years ago.

A Romanian man who admitted having sex with a 14-year-old Irish girl has been allowed withdraw his guilty plea at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as a result of this week’s Supreme Court judgement.

A woman who denies handling stolen paintings from the Beit Collection attended hospital on the day of the theft, a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury has heard.

A woman has denied at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she handled two paintings worth an estimated €2.6m that were stolen from Rossborough House in Co Wicklow in 2001.

A Westmeath man who pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to defrauding insurance companies of more than £55,000 Irl in the mid 1990s has been remanded for sentence on December 9.

A second man arrested after a major Garda operation pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today to having a massive quantity of explosives near the border last year.

A man accused of Real IRA membership said the reason he tried to escape gardaí on the day he was arrested was he "panicked", the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Garda Chief Superintendent involved in the investigation of three Armagh men accused of membership of the Real IRA had suspected one man of membership for 20 years, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

An Albanian national has denied in the Cental Criminal Court that he raped a Dublin woman who had been dating one of his friends.

A Dublin woman has told a jury she was raped in a city centre flat by an Albanian national who was a friend of a man with whom she had just started a relationship.

A taxi driver who stashed cannabis worth €2.75m in a ditch behind his home has been jailed for six years by Judge Kevin Haugh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of raping his niece several times has reached its closing stages in the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin woman who claims her uncle raped her denied in the Central Criminal Court that she told her aunt she had made up the allegations.