THE jury in the trial of a Polish man accused of raping a woman in Galway as she walked home from her local pub in which they had both been drinking has heard that she had asked another customer to wait for her but he did not.

The jury in the trial of a Polish man accused of raping a woman in Galway as she walked home from her local pub in which they had both been drinking has heard that she asked had another customer to wait for her but he did not.

A Donegal man has been found not guilty of raping a teenage girl in his car over three years ago.

The trial of a Donegal man for allegedly kidnapping and raping a teenage girl in a car has continued with legal argument in the absence of the jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A doctor who examined a 14-year-old Donegal girl has told the Central Criminal Court that she "she wasn't sure she was definitely raped".

A Dublin man will be sentenced later for throwing missiles at gardaí during the Love Ulster Parade riots in the city centre two years ago.

A man has denied in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he threw missiles at gardaí during the Love Ulster parade riots in the city centre two years ago.

The prosecution case against four men accused of the murder of a Limerick bouncer has concluded at the Central Criminal Court today.

Gardaí investigating four men accused of murdering a Limerick bouncer have told the Central Criminal Court jury at their trial that the chief prosecution witness had not complained about screaming in his head when he came forward to admit to the murder.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has denied that the man he had claimed asked him to shoot the bouncer approached him to commit the murder.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that there had been an earlier plan to kill the bouncer before he shot him in the chest and in the head.

The chief prosecution witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that that he had flashbacks after the murder and could hear screaming in his head.

Neighbours of a Limerick bouncer have told the jury in the trial of four men accused of the killing at the Central Criminal Court how they woke up of the night of the shooting to hear gunshots.

Former Fine Gael TD Maurice Manning was today re-appointed as president of the Human Rights Commission for a second five-year term.

THE second of two convicted murderers began his legal High Court action yesterday against the Minister for Justice challenging the constitutionality of this country’s mandatory life sentence regime.

A 25-year-old Kildare man who raped his sister has been remanded for sentence by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin civil servant accused of murdering her husband has told the Central Criminal Court he first stuck her violently two weeks before their wedding.

A 29-year-old man died from respiratory distress caused by head injuries he received from a "mild punch", Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard on the second day of a manslaughter trial.

A 29-year-old man died six days after hitting his head on the ground after receiving a punch from his girlfriend’s brother, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A Roscommon farmer and church sacristan who orally raped and sexually assaulted a young female family friend has been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbot.

A murder accused who admitted to beating a man with a hurley regretted not robbing money from the man as he lay dying, a witness alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

The wife of a man accused of murdering their 20-month-old son considered committing him to a mental hospital in the months before the killing, a jury has heard.

A County Tipperary GAA coach has been convicted by a jury of sexually abusing three young girls sexually during football and hurling training sessions at a national school.

The risk of a chance match or a mistake in the DNA evidence against accused man John Crerar is too high to rely on it to convict him of murder, his lawyer told a jury today.

The former army sergeant accused of murdering Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy almost 23 years ago has told his trial jury that it is "absolutely impossible" that there is a DNA match between his blood and semen found in her body.

Two former co-workers of murder accused John Crerar told his trial that they saw him washing out the boot of his car with boiling water days after the disappearance of Kildare woman, Phyllis Murphy, over 22 years ago.

A former member of the defence forces who worked as a security guard with John Crerar on the night Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy disappeared has told a jury he lied to gardai when he provided an alibi for Mr Crerar back in 1980.

The former army sergeant on trial for the murder of Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy over 22 years ago told gardai he could not remember ever speaking to her.