The State's appeal against an important ruling in favour of convicted murderer Graham Dwyer will be heard in December.

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection simply "lashed out summonses" when bringing prosecutions over redundancies at the former Clerys department store in Dublin, the High Court has heard.

A report by a former chief justice John Murray supports Graham Dwyer’s claim that Ireland’s data retention legislation breaches European laws, the High Court has heard.

Fred Forsey Jnr received the longest prison sentence for corruption ever handed down by the Irish courts.

Latest: A female student says she was "scared and shocked" when a teacher asked her to put sellotape over her mouth during class.

A Dublin man, who set up a fake Facebook account to meet a woman who had stopped contact with him, told gardaí he strangled her when she screamed on seeing the pellet gun, Stanley knife and cable ties he had brought to frighten her.

LATEST:The trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a hotel room has heard that she was dressed when her body was found on the floor of Room 346 in the Plaza Hotel.

A man assumed a false identity in order to meet his ex-girlfriend in a hotel room, where he strangled her, a murder trial jury has heard.

A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a woman in a Dublin hotel after assuming a false identity and arranging to meet her for sex.

A childminder on trial accused of causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby told gardaí that the child was not “violently shaken” or assaulted while in her care.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

Dean Fitzpatrick’s father has described how his “world came crashing down” after hearing that his son had been “brutally killed” by David Mahon.

David Mahon’s counsel has told his trial jury that his client had no motive to kill his stepson, but every reason not to harm him, due to his love for Dean Fitzpatrick’s mother.

A jury has been told that what David Mahon did in the aftermath of his stepson receiving a fatal stab wound was “straight out of the How to Get Away with Murder handbook”.

The stepfather of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick told gardaí that her brother had walked into the knife he was holding, his murder trial has heard.

A man has gone on trial, charged with murdering his stepson by “gutting” him after the deceased had interfered with his bicycle to annoy him.

Independent TD Michael Lowry will have to foot the legal bill for the four days of a High Court hearing in which he failed to stop his trial on mainly tax-related charges.

Payments by the State to barristers in the civil courts last year soared by 22% to €12m, figures show.

A Laois barman who said he “wasn't sure” if he raped a woman because he was so drunk has been jailed for five years.

Independent TD Michael Lowry has been subjected to “unprecedented” State scrutiny for 20 years and his prosecution on tax charges contrasts with failure to charge even one Ansbacher account holder, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has cleared the way for the deportation of a man the State alleges has been working with people associated with the Islamic terror group known as IS.

A brother and sister murdered an elderly man in an attempt to cover up a robbery, the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has heard.

A Dublin man has today been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a man in Shankill in 2013.

The US claims a Wicklow man was an administrator of a the Silk Road website which offered anonymity to those both selling and buying items including illegal drugs and hacking software.

The jury will begin deliberating today in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a 10-month-old baby. Registered child-minder Sandra Higgins, aged 34, is alleged to have caused the injuries to the baby girl she was minding at her home.

A UK neuropathologist has told the trial of a child-minder charged with assaulting a baby that shaken baby syndrome has no scientific validation.

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby that some of the baby’s injuries represented a “classic textbook case” of baby shaking.

FATE DEALT Bernadette Forde savage blows, but the State also ensured that her final days and hours were lacking peace of mind, writes Michael Clifford. 

A jury in the trial of a woman accused of helping her friend take her own life has been ordered to find her not guilty on two of the three charges against her due to a lack of evidence.

Graham Dwyer’s defence lawyer told the jury: "I’m not here to try to convince you that Mr Dwyer is a nice guy."

Jurors in the Graham Dwyer murder trial “will be doing the unpopular thing” if they acquit him, defence counsel said yesterday.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of architect Graham Dwyer, who is charged with murdering Dubliner Elaine O’Hara in 2012.