The girls' mother stood by her partner and destroyed evidence after one daughter confided that she had been raped by the man.

A Meath mother destroyed evidence after her daughter told her she had been raped by the woman's fiancé, a court has heard.

A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing a man outside his internet cafe in Dublin city centre.

A Laois man beat and raped his wife after she insulted him about his ability to attract women.

A 60-year-old man who shot dead a mother of six and injured her daughter as they sat drinking tea in their kitchen has been found not guilty of murder and attempted murder by reason of insanity.

The 12-year-old son of a woman found guilty of child cruelty has told a court in a victim impact report that he doesn’t believe she did anything wrong.

A man has today pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering a mother and attempting to murder her daughter in Dublin over two years ago.

Revenge porn is not illegal in Ireland despite widespread criminalisation elsewhere, writes Joyce Fegan.

A Dublin maternity hospital has apologised to a couple and admitted its shortcomings in the treatment it provided to a couple whose child died in the womb.

A mother of five has been convicted of child cruelty following a seven-week trial which heard dozens of allegations of horrific sexual abuse against her youngest son.

A jury has convicted a Waterford father of raping his son from the age of six — but acquitted the child’s mother of having sex with the boy.

A judge drastically reduced yesterday the number of charges against a Waterford father and mother accused of sexually abusing their son.

The guardian ad litem for a child who claims he was sexually abused by his parents has said she does not believe the boy was telling the truth when he retracted the allegations.

The jury in the trial of a couple accused of sexually abusing their son has heard a sex tape was found in the house featuring the two accused and another woman.

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

A child who was allegedly sexually abused and neglected by his parents claimed that his father defecated on him as part of the abuse, a jury has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother showed disturbing behaviour in school such as biting and spitting, a trial has heard.

A boy who was allegedly sexually abused with a hot poker by his father only disclosed the allegations when he was in foster care, where his father could not find him, a trial has heard.

A boy who was allegedly sexually abused with a hot poker by his father only disclosed the allegations when he was in foster care where his father couldn't find him, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren’t real”, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren't real”, a trial has heard.

A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, it has been alleged.

A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, it has been alleged.

A Waterford man and woman sexually abused and exploited their son when he was aged between five and nine, it has been alleged at the Central Criminal Court.

A woman who was allegedly raped as a teenager during a night out has told a jury that the subsequent medical examination was nearly worse than the rape itself.

Crime against women is like a virus that keeps mutating, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan told a conference on digital abuse of women.

A man has been jailed for 10 years for raping a 14-year-old girl in a field as she walked to her friend’s house.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for what was described today as the “brutal murder” of his uncle in 2013.

A man has gone on trial charged with the murder of his uncle 18 months ago.

A Dublin man has gone on trial charged with the murder of his uncle Edward O’Connor in Finglas, Dublin 18 months ago.

A child rapist was able to travel to the UK and commit further offences after being interviewed by gardaí here who had seen a video of him raping an 11-year-old girl.

A Polish man who sexually assaulted a woman in a street attack a few months after he arrived in Ireland has received a four-year sentence, with the final two years suspended.

A homeless woman has told a trial that one man laughed and smirked while his friend raped her in a Dublin hotel.

The trial has begun of two men accused of raping a homeless woman in a hotel in Dublin city centre in March 2012.

An important dispute over whether internet hosting sites have immunity from defamation litigation is to be thrashed out before the Supreme Court.

A Longford youth has been sentenced to eight years in jail, with the final four suspended, for raping his former babysitter as she slept in her bed.

A Longford youth will be sentenced next week for raping his former babysitter as she slept in her bed.

A Wexford man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with the final three suspended, for raping a Kildare woman while she slept.

A Wexford man has been sentenced to ten years in prison with the final three suspended for raping a Kildare woman while she slept.