The Special Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of IRA membership has heard a day of legal argument.

The trial of six men accused of falsely imprisoning the former Tánaiste Joan Burton has heard that a a peaceful protestor is charged with an offence that could potentially result in a life sentence.

A 71-year-old man charged with the false imprisonment of Joan Burton during a water charges protest in Jobstown told gardaí he had joined the protest while in the area getting petrol.

A man has been jailed for 10 years for threatening, assaulting and raping his wife as their marriage was breaking down in 2014.

A Dublin garda is being investigated for not following up on complaints made by a woman who was allegedly raped, assaulted, and threatened by her husband, a court has heard.

A man has been jailed for 10 years for raping a 14-year-old girl in a field as she walked to her friend’s house.

A Dublin man who was caught trying to flush cocaine down the toilet when gardaí arrived at his home has been jailed for five years.

A Dublin man has had the amount of jail time he will serve for the possession of nearly €2m worth of cannabis resin reduced by two years after a successful appeal.

A jury was today asked to consider the evidence in the case of a man who was described as being butchered in his own home.

A 30-year-old man caught with over €87,000 worth of heroin in his bathroom told gardaí he had “no option” but to deal drugs, a court has heard.

A man accused of raping his 71-year-old aunt at knife point for three hours has told a court they had consensual sex on a number of occasions.

Lawyers for a Dublin man who was jailed for five years for IRA membership were not notified of parts of the belief evidence of a garda Chief Superintendant that helped convict him, the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.

A judge today praised two uniformed and unarmed gardaí who stopped 10 men in paramilitary gear in Balbriggan as "quite heroic" and said they "deserved much praise" for their action.

A Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA was not unlawfully detained by gardai who searched his vehicle, the Special Criminal Court has ruled.

A Garda Chief Superintendent has told the Special Criminal Court it is his belief a Dublin man on trial for IRA membership is a member of the IRA.

The fingerprint of a Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA was found on a plastic bag used to wrap a sawn-off shotgun, his Special Criminal Court trial has heard today.

A man who tried to hijack a car with an automatic transmission, but fled when he realised he couldn’t drive it, has today been sentenced to three years in prison.

A Swiss undercover agent involved in a drug trafficking investigation was forbidden to travel to Ireland because his anonymity and safety could not be guaranteed, a trial has heard.

Closing speeches have been heard today in the Special Criminal Court trial of two Limerick brothers accused of threatening to kill four members of the same family.

The trial of two Limerick brothers charged with threatening to kill four people has been adjourned until tomorrow after their defence team sought further disclosure on an alleged attempt by a key prosecution witness to “set up” one of the accused.

The trial of two Limerick brothers charged with threatening to kill four members of the same family has been adjourned until tomorrow after their defence team sought further disclosure on an alleged attempt by a key prosecution witness to “set-up” one of the accused.

A Dublin man found in possession of three handguns at his home last February has been sentenced to seven years at the Special Criminal Court.

A man has been sentenced to eight years for a post office robbery during which a customer had a knife held to her neck while the raiders demanded cash.

A mentally ill Cork man who sexually assaulted his eight-year-old niece and told a doctor he needed sexual experience to make him better has been jailed for three years.

Defence lawyers for a man on trial for murder, assault and hijack, have argued that the prosecution's main witness has lied in his statements to gardai and in his evidence to the court.

A senior Garda has told a murder trial that the main witness in the case, who told gardaí of an alleged “confession” the accused man made to him, may have been under the impression that he was suspected of involvement.

The central witness and friend of a man on trial for murder has denied that he himself was present at the alleged murder scene, and that he fabricated a story for the Gardaí to get himself out of trouble.

A Slovakian father-of-two has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his Polish flatmate after an argument about a light being left on.

The closing stages have been reached at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a 51-year-old Slovakian landscape gardener charged with murdering his Polish flatmate.

A former senior garda has been given a suspended sentence and a €5,000 fine for leaking a confidential government report to an Evening Herald reporter.

The sentencing of a serving member of An Garda Síochána for disclosing the contents of a confidential report almost three years ago has been adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A South African dementia suffer lost a bag containing €150,000 worth of cannabis in Dublin airport, the Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A Polish chef who carried over €65, 000 of cocaine through Dublin Airport in his stomach will be sentenced later.

A 29-year-old industrial window cleaner has been jailed for the mandatory five years for having a sawn-off shotgun in a stolen car he was driving.

A taxi driver who carried cocaine valued at over €250,000 in his cab for "a few hundred euro" to help pay off his loans has been jailed for nine years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 22 year-old Dublin man was today sentenced to 12 years in prison with three-years suspended for the manslaughter of James Donoghue as part of a joint enterprise with two other men in September 2006.

An alcoholic who sexually assaulted his mother's 58-year-old friend after breaking into her house has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 21-year-old man has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a 26 year-old man after a stabbing in Ballymun last year.

A man who texted his mother warning her to get the "stuff" out of the hole in his mattress during a garda search for drugs and ammunition at his home has been sentenced to three years in prison.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a man convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls, one of whom he video taped while he was assaulting her, against the severity of his seven year jail sentence.