An amateur antiques dealer has been jailed after he was caught with 57 stolen antique books, including an extremely rare King James Bible.

A judge refused a €12,500 settlement offer to a four-year-old who will be scarred for life after her hand became trapped in the lift doors at the Convention Centre in Dublin.

A Gaelic football coach has been sentenced to seven years and 10 months and placed on the list of sex offenders for a series of sex assaults on schoolboys.

A former GAA coach has been convicted of a horrifying series of sex assaults on several schoolboys.

A music teacher who sexually assaulted three girls while playing “chase and tickle” during the summer holidays of 1996 was given a two-year jail sentence yesterday, but the judge said it should be suspended in its entirety.

The severity of images in a child pornography case merited a jail sentence, but mitigating factors required it to be suspended, according to the sentencing judge in the case against a middle-aged Corkman yesterday.

Boredom and curiosity prompted a middle-aged Corkman to go online and access child pornography but yesterday it emerged his actions had devastating consequences for him.

A man who admitted playing a game of “chase and tickle” with young girls on a summer day in 1996 but denied any indecency has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three of the girls during the game.

A 72-year-old woman has lost her civil action in a land dispute involving a Government minister and his father.

A junior government minister and his father have been accused of a “thou shalt not pass” approach in a land dispute involving a an elderly neighbour.

A cash-in-transit security man for Brinks Ireland was dismissed for breaching one of the company’s 10 commandments by carrying more than the limit of cash on the street.

A father-of-two who was caught with child pornography, including cartoon images, has been sentenced to two years with 12 months suspended

A teenager who crashed into a stationary Garda Special Branch car, which was escorting former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, during a high-speed garda chase has today avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A GROUP of training course members including three Travellers were discriminated against when they were refused service at a hotel during a lunchtime break.

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre apartment scam left some foreign nationals living on the streets has had his sentence adjourned again for "one last time" to allow him compensate his 14 victims.

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given time to allow him compensate his 14 victims before he is sentenced.