TWO Laois brothers have been jailed for three years for raping a woman in a hotel, despite a prosecution witness claim that he was put under pressure by gardaí when making his statement.

Two Laois brothers have been jailed for three years for raping a woman in a hotel, despite claims by prosecution witness that he was put under pressure by gardaí when making his statement.

A Tipperary man has failed in an attempt to overturn his conviction for the kidnap and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a remote woodland 10 years ago.

The HSE has sincerely apologised for its various failings in its treatment of a 44-year-old father of three who died after severe brain injuries he sustained following surgery he underwent at a Co Kerry hospital on a broken wrist.

An Offaly electrician who seriously assaulted a man after being hit from behind in a Dublin pub toilet has been given a four-year sentence.

The jury in the trial of an Offaly man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in remote woodlands nine years ago has been hearing medical evidence in the case.

A Cork man has todaybeen sentenced to six years in prison by Mr Justice Peter Charleton at the Central Criminal Court after he admitted to depriving his former fiancé of medical treatment by masquerading as a doctor.

THE Central Criminal Court has been told how a man masqueraded as a doctor and carried out intimate medical procedures on his then girlfriend who believed he was a medical professional.

A 31-year-old unemployed man with "intellectual failings" has been jailed for nine years for twice raping a 13-year-old boy in a Dublin industrial estate container.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that a Dublin man denied in a garda interview that he had "plied a 13-year-old boy with drink" before allegedly raping him.

Campaigners for a new inquiry in to the Stardust disaster said today they had the “strongest case possible” in their quest for justice.

A Carlow pensioner has being jailed for seven years for raping a girl from the age of six, which the victim claimed under oath at the Central Criminal Court happened "hundreds of times".

An octogenarian Dubliner who sexually abused his niece more than 30 years ago has been jailed for nine months by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the jail sentence imposed on Limerick man Wayne Dundon for threatening to kill a young barman, who had refused to allow his 14-year-old sister into a pub, from ten to seven years after finding that the original sentence was unduly severe.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Kilkenny postmaster were told this morning the accused had no previous convictions and Gardai had checked his record with Chinese authorities.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a raid on a post office which netted him more than €13,000.

A Chinese national has gone on trial in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster who he shot after stealing €13,000 from a post office on John’s Green in the city.

The Court of Criminal appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a Limerick man against the conviction and 10-year jail sentence he revived for threatening to kill a young barman who refused to allow his 14-year-old sister into a pub.

Sentence on a Galway man for unlawful carnal knowledge of his then 15-year-old sister-in-law has been further adjourned pending judicial review of the recent legislation arising out of the "Mr A" case.

Sentence on a Galway man for unlawful carnal knowledge of his then 15-year-old sister-in-law has been further adjourned pending the outcome of the State’s appeal to the Supreme Court in the "Mr A" case.

A Kerry man who attempted to rape a teenage girl he on a quiet road has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A man charged with rape who has discharged his legal team and is defending himself, has told a jury he has been set up by gardaí because he "made a laugh of them" in a trial in 2000.

An investment broker has been remanded for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on February 24 next after he pleaded guilty to falsesly obtaining over £250,000 from investors.