A Cork man who orally raped a foreign national has been jailed for 13 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork father who sexually assaulted three young females will be sentenced later at the Central Criminal Court.

A chronic drug addict who fell back into re-offending after being released from a five-year sentence for fatally stabbing his brother has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for a series of robberies.

The owner of a children's clothing store in Swords whose vicious stabbing left his victim's intestines protruding from his body has been jailed for 10 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

n engineer has given evidence at the trial of a man accused of stabbing another in the abdomen causing his intestines to protrude from his body, that lighting conditions at the scene were "very dark".

The jury in the trial of a 36 year-old man accused of stabbing another man causing him serious harm, has heard that a youth made a statement to gardaí following the incident during which he identified the accused from a set of 12 photographs shown to him.

A man whose bowel and intestines were left protruding from his body in an attack seven years ago has refused to give evidence at the trial of a man accused of stabbing him.

Relatives of those killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings today called on the British government to investigate claims of state collusion in the 1974 attacks.

New memorials marking the sites where dozens of people were murdered in the Dublin bombings of 1974 are to be unveiled today.

Serving gardaí who were responsible for a botched probe into the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan must quit now, victims' families said today.

A official investigation into the biggest single act of mass murder in recent Irish history has today found no evidence that alleged British state collusion in the atrocity played a role the subsequent winding down of the Garda murder inquiry.

A long-awaited report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is finally expected to be published tomorrow.

Nobody will be brought to justice on the back of the long-awaited report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Taoiseach said today.

The Government is today expected to consider the long-awaited report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

A long-awaited report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is expected to be received by the Government today.

Time may have run out for the present Government to debate the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, families of the victims said today.

The families of victims killed in the Dublin Monaghan bombings have criticised delays in a Government-commissioned investigation as it passes its sixth deadline.

A Government inquiry into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which was due to report this month, has been granted an extension until July 31.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night revealed an inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings was making “considerable progress” in investigating the atrocity.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight revealed an inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings was making considerable progress in investigating the atrocity.

Relatives of those killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings tonight expressed hope that a new source of information could boost their search for justice.

A Cork man who orally raped an American student and then claimed he was a commanding officer in the IRA has been given a six-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Government inquiry in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings will now be completed at the end of January, it emerged tonight.

A Dublin businessman who made a record €9m payment to the Revenue for unpaid taxes was today jailed for three months for tax evasion.

FAMILIES of those killed in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings last night criticised a Government decision to establish a Commission of Investigation into the atrocity, saying the move would shut them out of proceedings.

A date has been set for the trial of a 20-year-old Cork student charged with the murder of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan (aged 11), today at the Central Criminal Court.

A man who murdered a young German tourist and dumped her shoes and trousers in a skip today began his appeal against his conviction.

A woman who witnessed the assault on a man got up from her "ringside" seat "for a can of beer" during the attack, the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a man heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

A woman, who was a suspect in the case, was kissing one of the accused at the victim’s house on the night of the murder, a jury in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a man heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

A Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of two Dublin men accused of murdering a man heard that the dead man took his three children to McDonald's and a duck pond the day before his death.

A father-of-one with 48 previous criminal convictions was jailed for 10 years by a judge at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today for the manslaughter of his friend in 2002.

IT was a case that should never have been brought to trial — that was the judgment of Judge Carroll Moran, who was highly critical of the DPP, describing as “untenable and nonsensical” submissions made on behalf of the prosecution.

A 47-year-old Offalyman has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of his son at the Central Criminal court today.

A father’s act of bringing a knife into a fight with his son was “highly dangerous” and constituted criminal negligence, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

The last words of a man who lay dying in his father’s arms after being fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife during a row were heard by a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A man accused of murdering his son frantically tried to resuscitate him during a 40-minute wait for an ambulance, an eyewitness told a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

The trial of a Louth man charged with the murder of a young German woman in 2001 concluded at the Central Criminal court today with closing speeches heard from both prosecution and defence counsels.

The evidence against a Louth labourer accused of the murder of German journalist Bettina Poeschel was "overwhelming" against the accused, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

Prosecution evidence in the trial of a Louth man accused of murdering a German woman in 2001 concluded at the Central Criminal court today.

A Drogheda Garda Inspector today defended the circumstances surrounding the alleged confession of a man accused of murder that he had returned to the body of a young German woman days after her disappearance to remove and hide her clothes.

Murdered German journalist Bettina Poeschel may have been killed and later dumped and hidden in dense undergrowth, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

A mother-of-two who shot her husband dead with a shotgun she had bought him weeks earlier should not be jailed, so she can continue caring for her children, a court heard today.

A 46-year-old father-of-three has received two life sentences after pleading guilty to the murder of his wife and her former boss, a well known publican in Co Waterford last year at the Central Criminal Court today.