A father of one has been jailed for 15 years for trying to kill his wife by hitting her over her head with a hammer on her birthday while she slept.

A father of one has apologised to his wife for attempting to murder her by hitting her on her head with a hammer on her birthday while she slept.

An Italian man accused of the murder of well known pro-life campaigner and religious writer Tom O'Gorman, was unable to face another court hearing today.

An Italian man accused of the murder of well known pro-life campaigner and religious writer Tom O'Gorman at his north Dublin home could not come to court today.

A 34-year-old Italian man replied “I am guilty” when he was charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a well known pro-life campaigner and religious writer at his Dublin home.

Friends of a man who died after taking ecstasy while attending a concert at the Phoenix Park told an inquest that he was “rambling” and talking to people who were not there.

The abolition of the EU’s dairy quota restrictions in 2015 will represent both an opportunity and a challenge for Irish farmers, Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness said at yesterday’s Lakeland Dairies milk quality awards in Virginia, Co Cavan.

The trial of two Dublin men accused of the murder of teenager Daniel McAnaspie, who was in the care of the State at the time of his death three years ago, has heard his body was "stuffed into a suitcase" days after he was killed.

A father-of-two who was caught with child pornography, including cartoon images, has been sentenced to two years with 12 months suspended

A young Dublin man who left a knife embedded in another youth’s back has received a five year sentence with one suspended.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that DNA matching a taxi driver who was fatally stabbed in Blanchardstown last year was found on the clothes of a man and a woman accused of murdering him.

A man accused of murdering a taxi driver last year by stabbing him more than 40 times in a frenzied attack told gardaí that the deceased had pulled out a gun before he stabbed him in the neck in a row over drug money.

Mobile phones are likely to be the next target of criminal computer hacking gangs, scientists warned today.

A postman who had never come to garda attention before and "was at a loss" to explain why he stabbed a man at a house party has been given a two-year prison sentence.