A Cork man has failed in an appeal against his conviction and six-year sentence for dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers.

A defamation case taken by a Co Cork woman against RTÉ arising out of a Prime Time Investigates programme on social welfare fraud has been settled.

A judge has praised AIB for taking a hit on €18,000 worth of cheques stolen from an elderly couple by a mother-of-12 who used the money to buy Christmas presents for her children.

A woman forged and cashed cheques from a business she owned with her partner to pay gambling debts, even though the account did not have sufficient funds.

The son of Virginia Democratic congressman Jim Moran has resigned from his father’s campaign after an undercover video showed him discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.

A bid by two men, who claimed they were “stitched up” by gardaí, to have their appeal against their convictions for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 heard by the Supreme Court has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A 21-year-old man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 60s as she walked home from bingo in north Cork has been jailed for eight years.

A pharmaceutical company in Cork has pleaded guilty to four breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising out of an explosion which claimed one man's life and injured another.

A Cork man has been sentenced to five years in prison, and banned from driving for 20 years, for drink driving.

A judge has spoken out strongly against people bringing knives with them to debs dances as he jailed a 21-year-old man for three years for a violent attack on a young man in Cork city.

The State has failed in a bid to increase the four-year sentence for robbery handed down to a Cork man who raped and killed beautician Rachel Kiely more than 10 years ago.

MORE than 1,000 people packed a church in Co Cork yesterday to pay their last respects to a Circuit Court judge who was described as “a friend to everybody” and “a true man of the people.”

An appeal brought by two men who claimed they were “stitched up” by gardaí for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Co Cork more than two years ago has been dismissed this morning by the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA).

UNDER-18s will have to leave their graduation function at a leading Cork hotel at 12.30am tonight following a garda crackdown on the licensing laws.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of two men who claim they were “stitched up” by gardaí for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Co Cork over two years ago.

A man who received a five-year sentence for harassing his former girlfriend has had an attempt to overturn his conviction rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A convicted killer has been jailed for six years for robbing a 76-year-old who was walking home from mass in Cork city.

Criminal hearings may experience delays because of staff shortages at the Probation and Welfare Service, it was revealed today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an appeal by a man against his conviction for conspiring to procure weapons, including rocket launchers, for a criminal gang alleged to be shopping for weapons from prison.

The CCA has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a man against his conviction for conspiring to procure weapons including rocket launchers for a criminal gang running its business from prison.

Three Britons accused of being involved in an international drugs smuggling ring intercepted off the Irish coast appeared briefly in court today as the start of their trial was adjourned.

A CIRCUIT court judge described a planning dispute between two brothers as “one of the more upsetting cases” he has ever had to deal with.

GAA legend Teddy McCarthy escaped a jail sentence yesterday.

A PUBLIC servant accused of taking bung payments so that he might favourably review grant applications has had all charges against him dropped.

A teenager jailed for fire years for firebombing the home of a politician who he had a grudge against has had his appeal against severity of that sentence dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Four men appeared at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today in connection with the biggest drugs haul in the history of the State.

A FIVE-YEAR battle over fishing rights on one of Ireland’s best known rivers was settled yesterday before the case was due to be heard in the circuit court.

A MARITIME historian’s efforts to identify a 17th century wreck which hebelieved to be a historic slave ship led to his appearance in court yesterday.

AN ex-IRA man with two previous convictions for kidnapping and described as a danger to society and civilisation had his appeal against a 20-year sentence dismissed in the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) yesterday.

A FORMER private schoolboy who admitted raping and killing his 93-year-old great grandmother was yesterday sent to Broadmoor for tests.

IAN BAILEY, who draws the dole, set up a market stall at the weekend.

In stark contrast to the Brian Murphy verdict, the family of Denis Franklin are distraught over the collapse of the prosecution case in the trial of three men accused of seriously assaulting the Limerick student.

Journalist Ian Bailey is to appeal the outcome of his failed libel actions against six Irish and Britsh newspapers, it emerged tonight.

IN the extensive coverage of the Ian Bailey libel case one significant comment made by Judge Patrick Moran has been overlooked.

THE solicitor representing Ian Bailey, the self-confessed chief suspect in the murder of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, said yesterday his client was an innocent man.

AN appeal against a decision to award almost minimal circuit court damages to Ian Bailey has not been ruled out.

YESTERDAY was a good day for newspapers and their right to investigate and report on matters of public interest.

AFTER a libel case which bore all the hallmarks of a murder trial, Ian Bailey, the self-confessed chief suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier killing, lost his action against six newspaper titles yesterday.

The verdict was being given today in the major libel action English journalist Ian Bailey brought against eight Irish and British newspapers in the wake of a brutal murder in Co Cork.

English journalist Ian Bailey will tomorrow hear whether he has won damages in the libel action he brought against eight British and Irish newspapers in the wake of a murder in Co Cork.

A paedophile cleric who sexually abused boys in the 1950s and 60s at a Cork home is due to be freed from prison later today.

SURVIVORS of paedophile cleric Brother Ambrose yesterday sought reassurances from the Brothers of Charity that the ailing brother will not have access to children and will receive professional help.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight issued a strong defence of day-long ceremonies in Dublin to honour 10 men executed by Britain for their part in Ireland’s war of independence more than 80 years ago.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin to honour 10 men executed more than 80 years ago.