A judge has refused a DPP request to prevent a taxi driver accused of sexual assault from working late at night.

A clinical psychologist has said he is satisfied that a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through Bebo does not have paedophilic tendencies.

The State is agreeing to hand over material including medical records, writings and drawings to French authorities investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a judge heard today.

A prison officer who tried to smuggle more than €20,000 of drugs into Mountjoy has been jailed for five years.

Two men have been jailed for two years each after taking part in “gratuitously violent” robberies in which a gang carried out random attacks on people on the way home from Christmas parties.

A man who sexually abused his girlfriend’s 12-year-old sister after a party in her house will be sentenced in December at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 27-year-old man who was "highly strung out" on a concoction of alcohol and drugs when he stole drugs from a pharmacy and assaulted gardaí has been given a four-year suspended sentence.

A mother who left her three-month-old baby outside “in the depths of winter in below sub-zero temperatures” has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Tallaght father-of-two was jailed for seven years with the last four suspended for possessing nearly €60,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in his home.

A Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate told detectives he killed him with “three digs, three kicks and a stamping” before rubbing excrement in his face.

A 62-year-old school teacher has been convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting a pupil over 40 years ago.

A teacher has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges of sexually assaulting a primary school pupil 40 years ago.

A cocaine addict who robbed a bookmaker's shortly after filling out a lost docket form with his real name and address has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 25-year-old Lithuanian national has been convicted of attempting to rape a Longford student on the shore of a Leitrim lake last year after she had consumed whiskey, cider and cannabis.

A man who was transporting firearms and ammunition for a criminal to repay a ‘debt’ as a result of seized drugs has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Dublin men whose assault on a Norwegian tourist has left him with severe head injuries and a serious speech impediment have been jailed for terms of seven and six years by Judge Katherine Delahunt today.

A former heroin addict who attacked his neighbour with a hatchet because the music at his daughter’s confirmation celebration party was too loud has been given a four year sentence.

A chronic heroin addict who chased a 13-year-old boy wielding a knife and hammer and "terrorised" the boys’ sisters during a burglary has been given a 13-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Cork man who raped a teenage girl after he and his brother spent €300 on cocaine and alcohol has been jailed for four years by Ms Justice Maureen Clark at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man accused of rape has claimed in evidence that he had consensual sex with the teenage complainant and agreed he at first told a lie to gardaí about where he was on the night of the alleged crime.

A man kicked and punched his estranged wife to the ground and then threw a car battery at her because he didn't like how she answered a question, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

Sex offenders weren't allowed a chance of rehabilitation by society "whipped on by the tabloid media", Mr Justice Paul Carney said when he jailed a man for seven years for orally raping his stepdaughter.

A 46-year-old Sligo man has been found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of raping his wife just weeks after the birth of their child.

A woman ran screaming from the Central Criminal Court calling her alleged rapist a "scumbag" after he was acquitted by direction after hand-written statements went missing from a garda station.

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.

A media lecturer who stabbed a love rival in the face and neck with a wine glass has what Judge Desmond Hogan called the dark cloud of a custodial sentence looming over her.

A former soldier charged with murdering an 18-month-old infant appeared drunk when gardai arrived at the scene on the morning of the killing, a murder trial jury heard.