The HSE wants court orders allowing doctors not to resuscitate a severely brain-injured man if his condition deteriorates further.

A 16-year-old girl who has become “almost mute” due to depression associated with an eating disorder needs to be treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the High Court heard yesterday.

An underage person could not consent to a sexual act even if they appeared to be an enthusiastic participant, a judge has told the jury in the trial of a then 15-year-old accused of raping a 14 year old at a youth disco.

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in Alan Boggans' bid to have his conviction for possession of €1.9m worth of cannabis set aside.

A 21-year-old student whose weight has dropped to just 5½ stone (36kg) is to be force fed through a tube on the orders of the High Court.

Two children have been left in “a legal limbo” because the Adoption Authority of Ireland refuses to recognise their overseas adoption by an Irish-based couple, the High Court has heard.

A 22-year-old woman who suffers from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is to be fed through a tube in hospital for another two weeks.

The alleged rape of a woman in her Monaghan home has been described as a “drunken orgy” by a defence counsel for one of the accused men.

A Donegal father has been jailed for seven and a half years for sexually abusing three young girls in his daughter's bed while they were on sleepovers at his house.

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Three media outlets have denied that the constitutional right to privacy and right of anonymity of two young victims of sexual abuse was breached in reports they carried about the conviction of the children's attacker.

A Cavan man accused of murder told gardaí he would have caused ‘’chaos’’ if he went to the deceased’s funeral, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that firearm residue was found on clothing similar to that allegedly worn by the accused on the morning of the fatal shooting.

A central witness in the case of a Co Cavan man on trial for murder has denied that he has lied to the court and tried to make himself look innocent and “detached” from the killing.

The fiancé of a man who was shot to death while he slept in bed beside her pointed at the accused in the Central Criminal Court today and identified him as the assailant.

The girlfriend of a man shot dead while he was sleeping in his home in Cavan last year has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that the accused man was the assailant.

LIBERTAS chairman Declan Ganley has resolved injunction proceedings against Village Magazine over an article which includes a quote from Minister Dick Roche describing Mr Ganley as a “snake-oil salesman”.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been listening to closing speeches from both the prosecution and the defence at the trial of a man accused of murder and a woman accused of burning the deceased man’s clothes.

A man accused of murder has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he stabbed a man because he was trying to protect himself and the woman he was with.

A Lithuanian national who attempted to rape a Longford student on the shore of a Leitrim lake last year has been jailed for three years by the Central Criminal Court.

A man told gardaí that he punched a 57-year-old man, whom he is accused of unlawfully killing, after he woke up to find the man "feeling his girlfriend’s tits", when the couple had been sleeping rough in a doorway under a duvet.

One of two men accused of murdering a Chinese man told the court he "never made any racist remark" and "fundamentally disagreed" with accounts given by his co-accused about how the fatal incident started, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Two surgeons who were prevented from working at Cavan General Hospital for the last 18 months have had their suspensions lifted by the Department of Health, it emerged today.

A leading Sinn Féin member and a man who engaged in patrols against drug dealers were today sentenced to four years imprisonment for IRA membership.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement on defence applications concerning the belief of the head of the Garda Special Branch that two Dublin men were IRA members.

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.

An 18-year-old youth has admitted causing the death of two gardaí when the stolen sports car he was driving rammed into their patrol car.

The case against seven men accused of Continuity IRA membership was a "garda driven prosecution" inspired by a political agenda, a defence counsel told the Special Criminal Court today.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that people's lives would be at risk if he disclosed the sources of confidential information relating to one of seven men accused of membership of an unlawful organisation, the Continuity IRA.

A detective sergeant today denied that he deliberately gave prejudicial evidence in the trial of seven men accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Continuity IRA.

A 36-year-old security guard who had a relationship with a 13-year-old girl and fathered her child has been jailed for two years by Judge Des Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

GALWAY GAA chiefs have been ordered by the High Court not to play a disputed County Championship match tomorrow between Corofin and Carraroe.