Slawomir Gierlowski (33) of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin denies attacking the women on dates in 2011, 2015 and 2016 at locations around Clondalkin in south Dublin.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of carrying out three attacks on women over a five-year period.

A garda has told a court he was hit in the head with a can of Red Bull while moving former Tanaiste Joan Burton through the crowd at an anti-water charges protest in 2014.

A convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 18 years for raping a boy and sexually abusing another child 20 years later.

A convicted sex offender faces a maximum prison sentence of two years for each count of sexually assaulting his younger brother over a five-year period.

A father of one caught with a cash box containing €50,000 which was stolen during an ATM delivery has been sentenced to a year in prison.

A man who robbed a cash-in- transit box containing €50,000 a month after he robbed a teenager of €1,700 worth of entertainment equipment has been sentenced to five years in prison.

An artist who raped and sexually assaulted a young woman has been given a six-year sentence.

Four young Nigerian men will be sentenced later for their role in a street attack on nightclub goers and a DJ over three years ago.

A 22-year-old with 140 previous convictions has been sentenced to eight years after being stopped at a garda checkpoint with a petrol bomb.

A homeless addict has been sentenced to three years after he had sex with a school girl having met her for the first time that day while she was wearing her uniform.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on Bebo after he claimed to be 19-years-old will be sentenced next month.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

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 man who indecently assaulted two of his nephews over a 10-year period nearly 40 years ago has been given a three-year and nine months suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A 22-year-old who glassed a Scottish medical student has been remanded in custody to begin his three-year sentence after having the commencement of the term deferred for a month to allow him complete his college exams.

A 27-year-old drug addict who was “highly strung out” on a concoction of drugs is to be sentenced in July for assault on two gardai and theft of drugs from a pharmacy.

A South African drug courier who was caught in Dublin Airport with cannabis valued at almost €90,000 has been given a six year sentence.

A convicted drug dealer who was caught driving a stolen motorbike while he was on bail awaiting sentence for selling heroin has been jailed for 12 months by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A former roofer has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing heroin valued €6,000 in March of last year.

A trial date has been set for Kathleen Mulhall on charges arising from the killing of her boyfriend Fareh Swaleh Noor.

Two thugs whose horrific 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 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Galway man has been convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in her bedroom two years ago.

An alcoholic father-of-four caught transporting stolen firearms has been jailed for two years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Wexford single farmer has been given a 10-year sentence by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court for orally and anally raping a young male over a number of years.

A north Dublin woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that a man she alleges was having sex with her when she woke up later sent her a mobile phone text message saying: "I raped you, ha ha."

A Sligo man sneered at his wife that "the gardai can’t touch me, I am your husband," when he raped her shortly after the birth of their child, his former wife told the Central Criminal Court.

A man who committed robberies which his own defence counsel described as "chilling" will be sentenced on June 20, 2005 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A retired priest who forced a then 16-year-old boy to perform oral and anal sex on him 20 years ago has escaped a prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.