A psychiatric nurse has accepted it is possible he had a knife and used it in an incident in which five people were allegedly stabbed.

A serial conman who once telephoned the RTE 'Liveline' show to talk about his crimes has failed in an appeal against his four-year sentence for theft and other offences.

Two Vietnamese men have been jailed for three years after they were caught working in a cannabis growing factory which was housing over 500 plants valued at €428,000.

A Clare man has been given a nine-year sentence for molesting and raping his younger cousin which led to her attempting suicide five years later.

A Dublin man has avoided a jail term for “a dirty little scheme” of fraudulently claiming more than €43,000 in social welfare over a four year period using his brother’s identity.

A publican and two other men have gone on trial accused of demanding another pub close within 24 hours.

A former barrister who left over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” voicemail messages on a younger colleague’s mobile phone has been sentenced to three years.

A former barrister will be sentenced next week after he left over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” voicemail messages on a younger colleague’s mobile phone.

A Cavan father of four who agreed to transport more than a €250,000 between criminal gangs in Dublin and Holland has been sentenced to three years.

A 49-year-old barrister has pleaded guilty mid-trial to harassing a younger colleague over a four-year period.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby has heard that the pattern of haemorrhages in the child’s eyes in conjunction with brain trauma was “consistent with non-accidental injury.”

A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that the child had suffered severe brain damage.

A man who tried to hijack a car with an automatic transmission, but fled when he realised he couldn’t drive it, has today been sentenced to three years in prison.

A woman described as “gullible, naïve and an easy target” has avoided a jail term after a man she had just gone on holiday with packed almost €60,000 of cannabis into her suitcase.

Crime journalist Paul Williams has named in court the people he believes killed gangland figure Marlo Hyland and plumber Anthony Campbell.

A jury in the trial of a Meath resident accused of robbing more than €300,000 worth of tobacco products has heard he was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a firearm.

A delivery driver has told a jurytoday that he and his co-worker were falsely imprisoned during a robbery of over €300,000 worth of tobacco products.

A Clondalkin man who left a clamper with severe neurological damage after he struck his head with a lump hammer has been sentenced to 10 years with the final three suspended.

A drunk driver who was caught with €81,000 worth of cannabis after he was pulled over has been jailed for four years.

Six men have been sentenced over a “violent protest” in Mountjoy Prison in which five prison officers were injured.

A Drimnagh man is to have his trial take place before the Special Criminal Court after the Director of Public Prosecutions stated that ordinary courts are “inadequate” to deal with it.

An elderly alcoholic who left his brother to die over several days after beating him with an iron bar has received a seven-year sentence with the final three suspended today.

A “championship” boxer who knocked a man to the ground in a one punch assault may be ordered to perform community service in lieu of a two year sentence.

A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability has been jailed for five years.

An inmate who assaulted a prison officer at Mountjoy Prison in a “determined and vicious attack” has been given a six-month sentence to run consecutive to a 10-year sentence he is currently serving.

A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability will be sentenced later with three other youths.

An elderly man who fraudulently claimed almost €140,000 of a dead acquaintance’s pension for 23 years is to pay back An Post €40 a week.

A young father who threatened to kill himself and his ex-partner when he suspected she was seeing someone else after they had broken up has had his sentencing adjourned for six months.

An elderly bachelor has been jailed for five years for the sexual abuse of four of his nephews and one of his nieces 20 years ago.

A convicted arsonist who viciously assaulted his ex-girlfriend while on bail for causing €15,000 worth of damage by setting fires at a car dealership has been given a three-year sentence.

A man who caused a bomb scare at Dublin nightclub leading to its evacuation because some of his friends had gone there instead of attending his 21st birthday celebrations is to perform community service.

A former taxi driver who drove a stolen van containing cigarettes worth over €300,000 which had been earlier robbed from two delivery men has been sentenced to four years in prison with the last two and half years suspended.

A Dublin man who set fire to a guesthouse while his friends were in an upstairs bedroom has been sentenced to three years in jail with one suspended for arson.

A Dublin criminal who was jailed recently for a conspiracy to steal €855,000 from a cash-in-transit van has received another five-year sentence with one suspended for threatening to kill a garda.

A forensic scientist has told a jury at the trial of two men accused of conspiracy to possess drugs that there is “strong support” to show that one of the men had been in contact with a car containing a large amount of drugs.

A jury at the trial of two men accused of conspiracy to possess drugs have heard allegations that a car containing the accused men changed direction after seeing a large number of gardaí in a west Dublin car park.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990's has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice George Birmingham for raping an 86-year-old woman in her home last year.

A consultant psychiatrist who treated an 86-year-old woman that a Monaghan man is accused of raping in her home has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she has Alzheimer's disease and is unable to give evidence.

A Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of a Monaghan man accused of raping an 86-year-old pensioner in her home have been hearing medical evidence from a doctor who examined the woman after the incident.

A convicted drug dealer has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell after gardaí spotted him digging up heroin worth €178,000 three months after he was released from a previous drug sentence.

A man who was caught with €17,614 of cannabis after a sniffer dog identified his luggage as suspicious at Dublin Airport has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The night porter of a Dublin hotel has told a Central Criminal Court jury how he found an alleged rape victim lying naked and injured on the floor of a lift after he responded to a report that someone was screaming for help.

An English woman who alleges she was raped in a Dublin hotel bathroom has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she hit the accused man with a wine bottle "in jealousy" because he was paying attention to her friend.

A 20-year-old who slashed the faces of four people in separate unprovoked attacks within a 15-minute period has been sentenced to five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.