A Central Criminal Court judge has adjourned sentencing until October for the two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel as he awaits psychiatric reports.

Mental health professionals assessing the two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old schoolgirl Ana Kriegel may interview the boys' parents, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The defence team representing one of the boys accused of Ana Kriegel's murder asked the trial judge to allow the jury to consider a verdict of manslaughter for their client.

The lawyer for a teenage boy, accused of the murder and aggravated sexual assault of Anastasia Kriegel, has said there was "not one pick of evidence" given by any witness in court that his client intended to kill the schoolgirl or anyone.

The lawyer for a teenage boy, accused of the murder and aggravated sexual assault of Anastasia Kriegel, has asked the jury to consider if there is any “real evidence” that his client had planned “any of this at all”.

A 35-year-old man has been jailed for nine years for a “hugely damaging” and abusive sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

Blood matching that of Anastasia Kriegel was found on a backpack, mask, gloves and knee pads seized from the home of one of the two boys accused of her murder, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Blood patterns in the room where 14-year-old Anastasia Kriegel's body was found indicate she was struck several times with a weapon while she lay on the floor, a blood spatter analyst has told the trial of the two boys accused of her murder.

The sentencing of a teenager for attempted murder has been delayed after the Central Criminal Court heard that an issue had arisen with preparing a court-ordered psychiatric report which would address future risk.

Anastasia Kriegel died from blunt force trauma to the head or from compression of the neck and suffered "a very horrific death", a pathologist has told the trial of the two boys accused of her murder.

An alleged "IRA man" who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago has been jailed for seven years.

The victim of an alleged IRA man who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago said his dream life was in “tatters” from the moment the man entered his house.

A jury has found an alleged IRA member guilty of raping two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago.

An alleged IRA man accused of raping two teenage boys in a Republican safe house told one of them they would be “found on a border road” if they informed anyone of the alleged rape, a jury has heard.

An alleged IRA man has gone on trial accused of raping two teenage boys in a republican safe house in the 1990s.

A man stabbed 28 times before escaping from the boot of a car that was pushed into a canal near the Battle of the Boyne site, has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he thought he was going to die.

An “irascible” and “cross” father who regularly beat his young children with household implements, including a belt and a ladle, has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

A mother of one has been sentenced to three years in prison for staging her housemate’s suicide in order to impede the prosecution of the man who strangled her.

The neo-nazi who the accused says strangled her housemate has not been charged. He is being spoon fed as a result of a traumatic brain injury sustained while fleeing after a car he had hijacked crashed.

A consultant in emergency medicine earlier testified that Gerard Boyle might have died and presented a ‘surgical emergency’ on admission to hospital that night.

A "martial arts expert" who punched his pregnant wife unconscious and fractured her jaw, has been jailed for three years.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

A retired schoolteacher has brought a legal challenge aimed at preventing his trial in on charges of alleged indecent assault against boys almost fifty years ago.

A man accused of raping his wife on Christmas Day in 2003 has told a court they had consensual sex and he was shocked when she accused him the next morning of raping her.

A woman who claims her husband raped her in their Dublin home on Christmas Day in 2003 has denied having consensual sex with him afterwards.

A Limerick man who called gardaí and told them he had just tried to kill his elderly neighbour will be sentenced next week for attacking and sexually assaulting the woman.

A man assumed a false identity in order to meet his ex-girlfriend in a hotel room, where he strangled her, a murder trial jury has heard.

An elderly man has been jailed for 16 months for molesting his nine-year-old niece.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer will not serve any extra time in prison for receiving a fraudulent loan in September 2008 in order to keep the bank from failing.

An incident at Oberstown children’s detention centre last August, in which a number of young people got on to the roof, involved “significant” damage to a building and was the “most serious” at the unit in Lusk for some 20 years, the High Court has heard.

A former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients over a three-year period has been jailed for a year.

A forensic psychiatrist has told a jury that a murder accused who stabbed his mother to death was suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia” and would have been unable to refrain from his actions at the time.

A Mayo man who had sex with a 16-year-old relative of his ex-girlfriend when he was 19 has been given a two-year sentence.

A 48-year-old father of three bled to death after receiving a knife wound to a varicose in his leg on Christmas Eve, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man who admitted killing a 42-year-old man on Christmas Eve two years ago is living with the deceased’s widow and child, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The High Court will hear arguments on the potential consequences of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union later this month in the context of extradition proceedings in which fair trial rights will be argued owing to delay.

A jury in a conspiracy to defraud trial has been asked to consider the fact the financial regulator knew about the so-called “back-to-back transactions”.

A man who facilitated the production of child pornography involving his own daughter which her mother filmed, must wait to hear whether his appeal against sentence has been successful.

A man who says he was sexually abused by a priest who was working as a music teacher while at secondary school in the 1980s told a court he didn’t tell anyone about the abuse until 2009 because he didn’t know how it would be received.

Describing Anglo Irish Bank as "very sick," a judge yesterday jailed three of its former officials for between 18 months and three years for conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by Revenue.

The deputy principal of a Louth secondary school has described a man who beat up his ex-girlfriend as pleasant, courteous, and generous.