A Dublin man has been convicted of using a fake social media profile to convince a young girl to come to his house and have sex with him.

A convicted paedophile has been jailed for three and a half years for sexually assaulting a baby girl who had been left in his care while her parents went out drinking.

A Pakistani man jailed for travelling to meet a 13-year-old girl with the intention of doing an act that would constitute sexual exploitation, in what was the first prosecution taken under child protection legislation, had his sentence reduced at the Court of Appeal today.

A four-year-old schoolgirl, who will be scarred for life after her left hand was trapped in lift doors, was yesterday awarded €20,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A 12-year-old schoolboy, who suffered injuries after he fell 12 feet to the ground from scaffolding, was yesterday awarded €25,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A Pakistani man jailed for the sexual exploitation of a 13-year-old girl in what was the first prosecution taken under child protection legislation has had his sentence vacated by the Court of Appeal.

A Dublin man who sexually abused two of his nieces has been given a seven-year sentence.

A Dublin man who abused two of his nieces has been jailed for five years.

A 33-year-old man has appeared in court having been extradited from Amsterdam in connection with a fatal armed raid on a cash in transit van in west Dublin.

A Dublin man has been jailed for four years for sexually exploiting his four-year-old daughter.

A 20-year-old man was suffering from “an acute exacerbation” of schizophrenia when he brandished knives towards two passers-by and six gardaí, a court has heard.

A young garda has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for a €10,000 insurance fraud involving his sports car.

A garda has been acquitted of harassing a garage owner and his father after a dispute over crash repairs that had been carried out on the officer’s car.

Evidence has finished in the trial of a garda accused of harassment and insurance fraud.

A court has heard how a Dublin based garda threatened to break the legs of a car dealer in Trim, Co Meath.

A Dublin based Garda has gone on trial accused of insurance fraud.

A Garda sergeant has been fined but spared a jail term after an appeal court upheld his conviction for sexually assaulting a female colleague while on duty at a Dublin station three years ago.