A man who subjected two students to an hour long ordeal in which they were tied up and robbed in their own apartment has received a five year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital told gardaí that she had given one of them an intra muscular injection of Serenase which she claimed had been prescribed for him.

A nurse has admitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she should have immediately reported her colleague to her superiors after she saw her use excessive force to inject an unprescribed drug to a patient.

A man who committed robberies which his own defence counsel described as "chilling" will be sentenced on June 20, 2005 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A criminal couple who worked together to rob a man at syringe-point, after he accepted a lift from the woman outside a Leeson Street disco, have been ordered to carry out 240 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Roscommon farmer and church sacristan who orally raped and sexually assaulted a young female family friend has been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbot.

An 18-year-old who burgled a house with a number of other youths on the morning that two gardai were killed when their patrol car was rammed by joyriders has been given three years detention by Judge Michael White.

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.

A Dublin woman told a Central Criminal Court jury she was raped on numerous occasions by her uncle while she was living in his house.

A man charged with IRA membership was allegedly part of an "IRA enterprise" in which he and four co-accused intended to pose as gardai, the Special Criminal Court heard today.