A riot squad officer filmed knocking Ian Tomlinson to the ground during the G20 protests will not be prosecuted over his death, it was announced today.

FIANNA FÁIL senator Mark Daly will escape prosecution for failing to return a donations statement in time to the state’s ethics watchdog, sources have indicated.

NEW guidelines in England and Wales on whether a person is to be prosecuted for assisted suicide will place closer scrutiny on the motivation of the suspect, their chief prosecutor said.

THE family of student Brian Murphy who died after being assaulted outside a Dublin nightclub today sought the materials State Pathologist Marie Cassidy used to determine his cause of death.

The Attorney General (AG) Rory Brady has been cleared of any responsibility for the controversy surrounding last month's Supreme Court ruling on underage sex.

No criminal charges are to be brought for the killing of two raiders shot dead by armed detectives during a foiled raid on a north Co Dublin post office.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has defended the decision to try the killer of Georgina Eager in Britain despite her family’s distress at the ordeal.

DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton has broken unprecedented ground by apologising to the husband of a woman fatally injured in a crash in which the State failed to prosecute for alleged driving offences.

FEW eyebrows will be raised at the news that 56 candidates who stood in last year’s General Election overspent on their campaigns.

Two serving police officers could face criminal charges over security force collusion with loyalist killers, it was announced tonight.

The partial publication of the Stevens Report into the collusion

The Standards in Public Office Commission has considered the implications for spending limits for TDs, in relation to the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of Desmond Kelly.