A Belfast man was charged at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin tonight with IRA membership.

A Dublin drug addict who started taking heroin to lose weight for football has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of the drug.

A Dublin man who hid €26,000 worth of cannabis resin in his garden shed has had his sentencing adjourned until October.

The brother of murdered prisoner Gary Douch has been jailed for seven years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of explosives.

A Dublin man who stowed over €6,000 worth of cocaine in a lawnmower in his garden shed has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has been sentenced to two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Cork man was involved in a money laundering operation involving the proceeds of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery on behalf of the IRA, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has had his sentencing adjourned until Friday.

A drugs “delivery boy” who had his ankles and knees sledgehammered by his bosses after gardaí seized almost €3m worth of cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy has been given an eight-year sentence.

A drug addict and alcoholic who was caught with almost €820,000 of cannabis resin has been given a 12-year sentence with the final three years suspended by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The case of an Armagh man, wanted by the British Authorities for a fatal shooting in Derby 18 years ago, was adjourned today after the High Court heard the man being sought for surrender had been transferred to a UK prison.

A Dublin man, who was apprehended with a loaded pistol while on bail for his involvement with a motorcycle theft ring, has been sentenced to 10 years with two suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father-of-two has been sentenced to four years with 18 months suspended for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

A former priest who sexually abused a young boy over 30 years ago and fled the country because of “adverse publicity” before gardaí could interview him has been jailed for one year by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

An "impressionable" young Dublin man with no previous convictions has been sentenced to seven years in prison for transporting €140,000 of drugs for a man whom he claimed protected him from bullies.

A Swords plumber who stabbed a Howth publican in the leg causing him serious injuries after being ejected from his pub has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father-of-two is to be sentenced early next year for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

A Galway man who claimed he unknowingly smuggled drugs into the country after agreeing to carry home a bag of clothes for a girl he met has received a six-year sentence with one suspended.

Gardaí attempting to investigate the abuse of an alter boy by a priest were “given the run around by Church authorities” in their efforts to locate the accused man for questioning.

A father of four lost more than €16,000 worth of heroin while at work because he was high, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A former stripper who held onto €2.2m worth of heroin for someone else has been given a four-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Tallaght man who was running "a manufacturing plant" by mixing and storing cocaine in his place of work has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two men will be sentenced later for their roles in a botched drug dealer robbery which left a man dead.

A motorcycle courier who became a heroin addict after an accident when aged 36 and then turned dealer to feed his habit has been given a four-year sentence for possession of the drug.

The High Court in Dublin has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a man wanted in Lithuania on weapons and terrorism charges.

A female garda who made a false complaint to colleagues that she had been attacked in a taxi by the driver and two other men has had her sentencing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court adjourned until next month.

A Dublin man who broke into his neighbour’s home and attacked the family living there with a knife has been found not guilty by reason of insanity at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who hid €600 worth of heroin in her underwear while her partner brandished a large sword at gardai has been given an 18-month suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A construction company has been fined €75,000 under the Health and Safety Act arising out of an accident at a building site where a man was killed after a steel bar fell onto him.

A Chinese man who bribed a former Department of Justice employee to issue visa extensions to immigrant students in a "highly lucrative scam" has been jailed for two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Department of Justice employee has been jailed for 18 months for his role in a scam where visa extensions were issued to immigrant students in return for bribes.

A young Dublin man has been jailed for ten years for possessing 1kg of cocaine at a garda checkpoint between Lucan and Clonlee nearly three years ago.

A man who stored €5m worth of heroin in the home he shared with his then girlfriend has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A credit controller who was caught with 11 video files of child pornography that he had downloaded out of "a morbid curiosity" has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The son of Padraig Harrington's former golf caddy has been sentenced to six years in prison for the robbery of a Kildare supermarket and other offences.

A couple who had €5m worth of heroin in their home have had their sentence adjourned by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Former Government press secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop has pleaded guilty to bribing Dublin County Councillors to vote in favour of a land deal in the 90s.

A British national has been jailed for six years for transporting more than €600,000 of cocaine to Ireland in a lorry load of quilts.

A former Department of Justice employee and a Chinese national will be sentenced in March for their role in a scam where visa extensions were issued to immigrant students in return for bribes.

A Belfast man has been jailed for nine years for possessing a handgun in suspicious circumstances following a garda chase last year.

An actor who imported 10 stun guns to see "if there would be a market for them here" has been jailed for two years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A bouncer who bit part of a man's ear off because he was depressed about being told he may have CJD - a form of "mad cow disease" - has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A cocaine addict serving a five-year sentence after being caught handing over €70,000 to a criminal colleague in May 2006 has forfeited €11,450 cash found on his person in separate incident earlier that year to the State.

A bouncer who bit part of a man's ear off because he was depressed about being told he may have CJD - a form of "mad cow disease" - will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.