A man jailed for distributing tens of thousands of child porn images and videos was "well advised" to drop an appeal against the severity of his sentence, according to the President of the Court of Appeal.

John Kelly (51), pleaded guilty to arson of the family home at Bruhenny, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork on December 18, 2016 when the four children aged 11, eight, six and two were inside.

Joe O'Reilly has been granted legal aid to pursue an appeal to the Supreme Court one year after his miscarriage of justice bid was dismissed as an “abuse of process”.

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following a successful appeal will be sentenced for manslaughter next week at the Central Criminal Court.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision that the detention of convicted murderer Daniel McDonnell in solitary confinement for a year breaches his rights to bodily and psychological integrity.

A Wicklow man jailed for killing his ex-fiancée's three-and-a-half-month-old baby has lost an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.

A security guard of a ghost estate, who attacked a woman unprovoked in her home, has been sentenced to two years in in prison following a finding by the Court of Appeal that his wholly suspended three year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

A man whose neighbour allowed him to rape her daughter repeatedly over a three-year period from the age of five has been sentenced to 14 years in prison following a finding last year by the Court of Appeal that his original eight-year-sentence was too lenient.

A man arrested at a Republican Sinn Féin commemoration who went on to assault a detective garda and “took a hold” of his pistol has lost an appeal against conviction.

A former priest and school principal has had his appeal against his conviction for the sexual abuse rejected.

THE Government’s nomination of Kevin Cardiff to the European Court of Auditors is expected to meet vociferous objections from the European Parliament after the €3.6 billion accounting error at the Department of Finance.

The High Court has awarded €32,000 to a part time postman who sustained serious head injures as a result of being thrown from his motorbike after a dog ran in front of him.

President Mary McAleese will travel for Strasbourg today to mark the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe.

Relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing are delighted with the conviction of Michael McKevitt on two terrorism charges.

A judge whose home was raided in a garda operation aimed at stamping out internet child pornography has been ordered to hear no more cases until the investigation is over.