Answers provided to gardaí by a man accused of making a bomb in his shed were "an incredible series of denials," a barrister has told the Special Criminal Court.

The State has asked the Court of Appeal to quash a murder conviction and order a retrial after it emerged that the then deputy State pathologist Khalid Jabbar’s work was not peer-reviewed.

A man who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl while her mother was away has been jailed for one year.

A Limerick man who sexually abused his daughter while she was aged between 13 and 16 years old has been jailed for seven years.

A witness has told the trial of a Dublin man charged with murder that he saw his brother being stabbed four times by the accused man.

A six-month sentence given to a Roscommon man convicted of sexually abusing his five-year-old daughter is "too lenient", it has been claimed.

A Dublin van driver has been fined €500 for running over and killing a 70-year-old nun.

A Dublin van driver has been fined €500 for running over and killing a 70-year-old nun.

“Any other child that is out there that has been abused or raped, I think they should really come forward and not let anyone else cut them down for what has happened to them. They’re the innocent ones. They’re not the sex offender.”

Justin Bourque, the man suspected of killing three Canadian Mounties and wounding two others has been arrested.

A civil engineer who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has been jailed for three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A Co Donegal man convicted of 65 counts of raping and sexually assaulting two close family members, sometimes on a daily basis for over a decade, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A Polish National has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering a Romanian man who was guarding two prostitutes in a Co Cavan brothel last year.

A convicted rapist and kidnapper who left the country during his Central Criminal Court trial in 2007 has been sentenced to twelve years with the final four years suspended.

A Polish man will be sentenced to life in prison for murdering a Romanian man who was guarding two prostitutes in a Co Cavan brothel last year.

A Cork man has been jailed for six years for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

A Cork man has received a six year prison sentence for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

A Dublin man who assaulted and tied up two French students in their bedrooms during a violent night burglary will be sentenced at a later date.

A Co Clare man who strangled a woman before dumping her body will be sentenced to life imprisonment tomorrow after being found guilty of her murder.

A Fás worker accused of murdering a woman in Clare two years ago broke down as he explained to a Central Criminal Court jury why he stabbed himself in the stomach when the woman’s body was discovered.

A deputy state pathologist has told the trial of a FÁS worker accused of murdering a woman in Co Clare two years ago that the cause of death was manual strangulation.

A Co Clare man has gone on trial for the murder of a 43 year old woman whose body was found on a beach two years ago.

A man has been convicted of raping a woman he had asked to clean his Tipperary house.

A man who indiscriminately fired two shots from a revolver during disturbances at the Smithfield Horse Fair two years ago has been jailed for five years.

A Continuity IRA assassin who executed an innocent man as he prepared to go to work has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.

A Limerick woman has pleaded guilty to murdering a father-of-two as he sat in a van on the driveway of his home.

A man who stole €180,000 worth of jewellery from a house, after helping a woman who was trying to deactivate the house alarm, will be sentenced next month.

A man who took two children “as cover” to a €400,000 drug deal has received an eight-year prison sentence with the last 18 months suspended.

An Offaly man has admitted to sexually assaulting a woman in a house in Waterford on the second day of his rape trial at the Central Criminal Court today.

A secondary school class received a first-hand lesson on the dangers of drugs yesterday as they watched two men jailed for transporting €1.5m worth of heroin.

A clinical psychologist has said he is satisfied that a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through Bebo does not have paedophilic tendencies.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A former music teacher has today been sentenced to two years with one suspended for sexually assaulting a pupil at the accused’s Co Meath home 25 years ago.

A Monaghan man who attacked and raped his long-term partner for no apparent reason has been sentenced to eight years.

A man who sexually assaulted his granddaughter at least three times over the course of four years has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Closing arguments have been heard in the trial of two Louth men accused of manufacturing a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.

The Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has further adjourned the sentence appeal brought by a Laois man convicted of the repeated rape and sexual assault of his daughter over a 10-year period.

A man who claims he was assaulted by two gardaí in Co Meath has told Trim Circuit Court he thought he was going to lose his life during the incident.

A Garda expert in the distillation of poitin has given evidence in the trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances.

The trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances has heard evidence from detectives who placed the pair under surveillance as part of a garda operation on the suspected manufacture of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices by the IRA.