An alleged sexual assault victim has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that a man held his hands around her throat throughout a late night attack outside her home.

Slawomir Gierlowski (33) of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin denies attacking the women on dates in 2011, 2015 and 2016 at locations around Clondalkin in south Dublin.

A physical therapist was cleared yesterday on a charge of sexually assaulting a woman by allegedly rubbing her breasts for 15 minutes during deep tissue massage for a lower-back injury.

A murder accused was “distraught and upset” as he prepared to hand himself over to gardaí following a fight that left one man dead, his trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A murder accused told his mother “I fucked up, ma” when he was arrested for stabbing a man over a €100 drug debt, a trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man was stabbed to death after he threatened to burn down the house of the man accused of his murder during a row over a €100 drug debt, a witness has told the Central Criminal Court.

A judge who sentenced a Meath man to two and a half years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend did not inquire into an allegation that the man locked the woman in a dog cage, his lawyers claimed at the Court of Appeal yesterday.

A Hungarian national accused of murdering a young Kildare man told gardaí it looked liked he swung his baseball bat at the deceased, but he “didn’t reach him”, a jury has heard.

A Kildare man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of raping his teenage partner in their apartment last year.

A 10-year-old girl has denied under cross examination that her father, who is accused of cruelty to his five children, never sexually abused her.

The foster mother of a young boy has told a jury that when he was brought to her home he was wearing clothes two sizes too small and covered his food with his hands when eating as if to stop someone taking it.

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A nurse has been convicted by a jury of assaulting two elderly patients at Naas General Hospital and of poisoning one of them three years ago.

The jury in the trial of a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict on day-18 of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.

A nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients told gardaí she bleeped a doctor and got permission to give one of them an intra muscular injection of a drug called Serenase.

A doctor has told a jury that he prescribed Serenase to a patient at Naas General Hospital after he was bleeped because the patient was hitting and kicking staff and was considered a danger to himself and others.

A ward sister has told a jury that she couldn’t recall having a conversation with a nurse accused of poisoning two patients in relation to her giving one of them an injection the previous night.

A hospital care assistant has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that she saw a nurse on trial for allegedly poisoning patients "quite forcefully and quite roughly" give an injection to an elderly patient.

The State pathologist has told a jury that an elderly man who was allegedly poisoned by a nurse died of heart failure that was not related to an injection he received from the accused.

A former colleague of a nurse charged with poisoning two patients has told a jury that she saw her "brutally dart" an injection into one of them before throwing water over him and threatening him.

A nurse has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that a former colleague on trial for assaulting elderly patients should not have been working unsupervised due to lack of training and alleged "problems".

A nurse allegedly poisoned two elderly men in Naas General Hospital three years ago after using excessive force to administer unprescribed drugs to them, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told.

A man who subjected a female student to more than hour of horrific sexual and physical assault near her south Dublin home in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

A Dublin man who raped and sexually abused his stepdaughter until she was 17 years old has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

The three men convicted in connection with the death of teenager Brian Murphy outside Club Anabel in Dublin four years ago are all anxious to speed up their appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard today.

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