A former garda has been charged with corruption and breaching the data protection act.

FINES totalling €6,250 were imposed on a Meath footballer and his wife for failing to return statements of their financial affairs to the Revenue Commissioners.

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.

More charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two, a court heard today.

A property developer has pleaded not guilty to criminal damage and motoring charges in connection with an incident in which a concrete mixer truck was allegedly driven against the gates of Leinster House last September.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor accused of accepting money to vote for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s was today remanded on continuing bail in his absence due to poor health.

The High Court has ordered the release of a man who was placed in custody this morning following a protest in which a cherry-picker bedecked with anti-government slogans was parked outside the gates of Leinster House.

A JUDGE has refused to strike out the case of a property developer charged with criminal damage after a concrete mixer truck was driven against the gates of Leinster House last September.

A judge has refused to strike out the case of a property developer charged with criminal damage after a concrete mixer truck was driven against the gates of Leinster House last September.

A former councillor charged with accepting money to vote for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's, was remanded on bail in his absence today after a court heard he is in hospital.

Businessman Jim Kennedy, who is accused of numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

A former Fine Gael politician appeared at the Dublin District Court this afternoon to face charges of taking corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's.

BROKE builder Joe McNamara told a Dublin court he was “exercising his constitutional right to protest” when he parked a 15-tonne cement truck at the gates of Leinster House on Wednesday.

A property developer was charged in court this morning with criminal damage after a concrete mixer truck was driven against the gates of Leinster House.

A MAN accused of murdering a woman whose body was found in the boot of a car told gardaí it was an “accident” when he was charged.

A man charged with the murder of a mother-of-one found in the boot of a car told detectives her death was an accident, a court heard today.

A man was remanded in custody today in connection with the murder of a father of two.

A former FÁS executive accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000 was served with a book of evidence at the Dublin District Court yesterday.

A former FÁS executive accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000, was remanded on continuing bail at the Dublin District Court today.

A former FÁS executive accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000, was remanded on continuing bail at the Dublin District Court today.

A man appeared in court tonight charged in connection with the fatal shooting of two men in Dublin last Sunday.

The husband of a woman who died following a stabbing at her home was tonight charged with her murder.

A teenage boy, who was forced by drug dealers to act as a courier to transport €18,000 worth of herbal cannabis, has been spared a custodial sentence.

A Vietnamese boy suspected of having been brought to Ireland by human traffickers is to remain in custody pending a continued Garda probe into his background.

A teenage gang’s race hate attack on a Bangladeshi national has been described by a judge as “downright thuggery” and compared to being “like terriers after a rat”.

A 13-year-old schoolboy made his first ever court appearance yesterday to face drug dealing allegations after his arrest for possessing nearly €1,000 worth of crack-cocaine, heroin and cannabis resin.

A 16-year-old boy facing trial for an arson attack that caused €100,000 worth of damages and left a woman homeless has been remanded on bail.

A 16-year-old boy will face trial for attacking a teenager who was stabbed and beaten with knuckle-dusters over comments made about a girl on a Bebo webpage, a judge held today.

A 13-year-old Romanian girl living in Dublin with a man who claims to be her uncle and guardian but has no official documentation to back-up his claims, has disappeared a court heard today.

A Dublin youth charged with the murders of Polish men Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos will have to wait another four weeks before he is sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

The High Court has ordered the release of a 15-year-old Dublin boy sentenced to 14 months detention at Oberstown Boys Centre, who was kept in a garda station because there was no place available for him at the Oberstown facility.

A 17-year-old boy was brought before the Dublin Children’s Court today to face a second murder charge in connection with the killing of two Polish men in February.

A 16-year-old boy arrested in December in connection with a €180,000 heroin seizure was today served with a book of evidence and sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Dublin Children’s Court has granted conditional bail to a 16-year-old boy who has admitted instigating an attack on a partially deaf man.

The mother of a teenage boy facing prosecution in the Children’s Court today hit out at the Health Service Executive and branded it a “joke” for not helping him.

FEARS were raised last night that children are being exploited here after gardaí were told they may have to take a Romanian girl into emergency care.

A Judge has said gardaí may have to make an “emergency care order” for a 13-year-old Romanian girl living in Dublin with a man who maintains he is her uncle and guardian but has no official documentation to back-up his claims.

The Health Service Executive is to inspect a run-down house where of a 15-year-old girl is said to be living in “appalling” conditions with nearly 40 others and no electricity or running water.

The case of a 17-year-old boy who allegedly beat a man’s head off a pavement repeatedly is too serious to be heard in the Children’s Court, a judge has ruled.

A troubled 15-year-old boy, who has made threats to kill himself, was further remanded in custody, by the Dublin Children’s Court yesterday pending efforts by the Health Service Executive to place him in a suitable care unit.

A Judge has called on the Health Service Executive to attend the court case of a 15-year-old girl living in “appalling” conditions in a run-down house without heat, electricity or running water.

A youth, who head-butted a shop owner a day after he had been released on a suspended sentence, has been remanded in custody.

A 15 -year-old boy arrested in connection with a gun and petrol bomb attack on a home in Dublin in March was today remanded on bail after a court heard that a detention centre did not have a space to hold him.

The State was today granted a time extension to allow it complete the book of evidence in the case of a 17-year-old boy charged with the murder of a Polish man in Drimnagh, in Dublin in February.