The court also heard that Shaw’s lawyers needlessly spent half a day arguing the minister’s initial refusal was “unjust”, as they never checked their emails to learn the decision had already been reversed.

Legendary publican Brian O’Donnell of the Hi-B bar was yesterday given a fitting send-off by his family and a large gathering of friends who came together on a cold and cloudless day to remember a man as warm and as wildly eccentric as the city itself.

Alan Cawley murdered two elderly brothers with special needs. He has been told to "rot in hell" by their family after losing an appeal against his conviction.

Darren Murphy, 42, with an address at Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, County Cork, denied murdering Olivia Dunlea

A North Kerry bachelor farmer convicted of the manslaughter of a 73-year-old neighbour by driving the pronged forks of an agricultural teleporter into his car in a row over a loud crow-banger had his five-year jail term replaced with a sentence of nine years in jail today.

A man who bit a garda's finger with such force that he broke the bone is facing potential jail time after being told his suspended sentence was too lenient.

A 69-year-old man sent to prison last year for abusing two generations of his family is not too old to serve a 20-year sentence, according to lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A convicted rapist who robbed cash and alcohol from an off-license while on bail for a series of other thefts has been given an extra six months in jail by the Court of Appeal.

A dependency on alcohol can diminish a person’s responsibility for murder such that juries should be allowed to find them guilty of manslaughter, the Court of Appeal has been told.

A ‘Daniel O’Donnell superfan' has had her prison sentence for participating in a cocaine “factory” cut in half by the Court of Appeal.

A 75-year-old man has had his conviction for raping his granddaughter quashed after reports were obtained to determine whether he was fit to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court more than a year ago.

The staging of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Lahinch is having “a transformative effect” on the seaside resort of Lahinch.

A detective garda jailed for harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters is to walk free from prison following a successful sentence appeal.

A man caught cultivating 112 cannabis plants in Co Tipperary while he should have been serving a 12-year-jail term in his home country, has moved to appeal his five-year sentence.

A Polish roofer who is currently serving a lengthy prison term for random attacks on three women has been convicted of trying to rape a woman almost nine years ago.

The daughter of a woman who was left with life-changing injuries following a brutal rape has called for longer prison sentences for violent criminals.

A man previously jailed for damaging a €10m Monet painting must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction for handling another artwork stolen from a stately home.

Dale's father said he “couldn’t believe that my son was left unrecognisable in the bed, that one human being could do that to another".

A “quiet and shy” Cork man has been sent to jail for possessing 1,027 images of child pornography after his original suspended sentence was deemed too lenient.

A man jailed for online sexual exploitation and defilement of a 13-year-old girl, when he was aged 19, has had his six-and-a-half year prison sentence cut on appeal.

Three men jailed for violent burglaries in rural county Limerick seven years ago have launched appeals against their convictions.

A religious teacher jailed for molesting a young student at a Dublin mosque has had his 14-month jail term increased to four-and-a-half years by the Court of Appeal.

After the shooting, Kierans went to The Square bar in Bailieborough where a "siege" took place.

A violent burglar used as “muscle” to evict a family from their home, in an attack led by former INLA man Dessie O’Hare, has had his prison sentence increased on foot of an appeal by prosecutors.

A 79-year-old man the FBI believes has been producing and selling child pornography “for at least 30 years” has lost a legal challenge to his pending extradition.

A Carlow man whose farm was “strewn with skeletal remains” has lost an appeal against the severity of his three-year prison sentence for “shocking” levels of animal cruelty.

A man who broke into his ex-partner's home before subjecting her and her teenage foster daughter to a series of violent rapes described as a “night of horror” has lost an appeal against the severity of his 18-year prison sentence.

A man found guilty of shooting his wife dead in an act of gross negligence must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction and sentence.

A man jailed for biting another man’s ear off in the smoking area of a pub, following a “very minor altercation”, has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence.

A 32-year-old man jailed for raping a woman without a condom, who he had been briefly dating, has lost an appeal against his conviction.

A man jailed for distributing tens of thousands of child porn images and videos was "well advised" to drop an appeal against the severity of his sentence, according to the President of the Court of Appeal.

A man previously jailed for damaging a €10m Monet painting has had second-thoughts about representing himself in an appeal for handling another artwork stolen from a stately home.

John Kelly (51), pleaded guilty to arson of the family home at Bruhenny, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork on December 18, 2016 when the four children aged 11, eight, six and two were inside.

A man who murdered his infant son 17 years ago is seeking to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice on grounds that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in recent years.

A young man who denied murdering his mother thinking he was setting her free from the cruelty of life was found guilty of murder yesterday.

A woman serving life for murder has had her conviction quashed after the Court of Appeal found her jury should have been allowed consider whether she had been provoked by her late partner before killing him.

The cabinet have approved the appointments of four senior judges to the Court of Appeal and High Court.

A 28-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a teenager at a popular hiking spot in Dublin.

A convicted rapist has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempting to murder a Wicklow man in front of his wife and children, failing only because his shotgun cartridges were damp.

A forensic pathologist told the trial of a father accused of murdering his six-month-old son that a tear to the inside of the child's throat would usually be seen in cases involving punches, blows or severe struggle.

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 couple’s 11-year-old son struck the attacker with a kitchen brush, which broke, in an effort to help his father.

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.