A woman who remains on paid administrative leave from her job as programme director of the HSE’s Aras Attracta facility has settled her case over an alleged HSE move to “re-discipline” her after she won an appeal against a decision to dismiss her.

A man jailed for raping his son from the age of six years old and locking him in a box in their Waterford home has been granted an extension of time to appeal his conviction and sentence.

Almost €810,000 was awarded yesterday to the family of a Cork County Council workman who was killed during tree felling in November 2012.

Judgment will be given today in a civil case taken to the High Court against Cork County Council arising out of the death of a workman during a tree-felling operation in 2012.

Cork County Council withdrew its claim of contributory negligence against a worker in a tree felling fatal accident case.

Cork County Council was accused yesterday of adding insult to injury by alleging contributory negligence by a workman who was killed during tree-felling in November 2012.

A woman who claims she was sexually abused by her school chaplain when she was a secondary school student yesterday told the High Court that the first time he performed oral sex on her they were both naked in bed in his house.

Former presidential candidate and Eurovision song contest winner Dana Rosemary Scallon has denied claims by her sister and a niece that she defamed them when asked about allegations of sexual abuse made against Ms Scallon’s brother John.

Boy was placed in foster care at the age of eight where he was subsequently abused by another child

A Polish man who stabbed a fellow countryman to death in the abandoned pub where they lived will be sentenced next month at the Central Criminal Court.

A High Court judge has found a female captain in the Defence Forces was excluded from a promotions process as a result of being on maternity leave in breach of equality implementation requirements of a European directive.

A man has today pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering a mother and attempting to murder her daughter in Dublin over two years ago.

A woman found guilty but insane over the killing of her baby son was not entitled to damages over a refusal to allow her decide where she could live after her discharge from a mental institution, the High Court has ruled.

A mother of five has been convicted of child cruelty following a seven-week trial which heard dozens of allegations of horrific sexual abuse against her youngest son.

A jury has convicted a Waterford father of raping his son from the age of six — but acquitted the child’s mother of having sex with the boy.

Social workers failed to inform gardaí that a child had withdrawn accusations that he was sexually abused by his parents from the age of six, a jury has been told.

An Armagh man suggested his partner’s daughter be put on birth control while he was secretly sexually assaulting her, a court has heard.

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

A child who was allegedly sexually abused and neglected by his parents claimed that his father defecated on him as part of the abuse, a jury has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother showed disturbing behaviour in school such as biting and spitting, a trial has heard.

A boy who was taken out of the family home after being allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother was further sexually abused while under foster care, a trial has heard.

A boy who was allegedly sexually abused with a hot poker by his father only disclosed the allegations when he was in foster care where his father couldn't find him, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren’t real”, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren't real”, a trial has heard.

A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, it has been alleged.

A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, it has been alleged.

A Waterford man and woman sexually abused and exploited their son when he was aged between five and nine, it has been alleged at the Central Criminal Court.

A 24-year-old man man who raped and sexual assaulted his two nieces and his nephew has been jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court.

A second former executive at Anglo Irish Bank is to stand trial on revenue charges.

A Dominican priest was yesterday charged with 39 counts of sexually assaulting a boy at various locations in Munster on dates between 1986 and 1994.

A TOP criminal law firm has said the country needs a new independent forensic science service or it risks jailing innocent people.

THE husband of hotelier Siobhan Kearney who was found strangled to death over a year ago has been charged with her murder.