A Dublin man convicted of sexually abusing his partner’s daughter over an eight-year period has failed in a bid to take his case to the Supreme Court.

A jury has heard how a woman who alleges she was raped by her daughter’s boyfriend made previous allegations of physical abuse against her daughter and teenage son.

A South African man who tried to smuggle €132,000 worth of cocaine into the country by swallowing it in pellets has been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq following the outbreak of war in 2003.