A Kildare man accused of raping his teenage partner in their apartment last year told gardaí in interview that he blacks out during “fits of rage”.

A retired Mayo businessman and chairman of the Connacht Oil Promotion Federation who was involved in a west of Ireland home-heating fuel price-fixing scam has been given a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a €15,000 fine.

The five anti-war protestors accused of criminally damaging a United States naval aeroplane will say they acted in defence of others, a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury has heard.

A CO Louth man began a legal challenge in the Supreme Court yesterday to an order for his extradition to Spain, where he is wanted for the alleged murder of his wife.

A man who fired a sawn-off shot gun at a Nigerian man he was hired to klll for a IR£15,000 fee has been given 100 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Clondalkin man seen running with a submachine gun in a black plastic bag has been jailed for two years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.