The lawyer for a Traveller, charged with murdering a man he found inside his mobile home, has told his trial jury that Travellers could be victims of burglaries too and that the law provided latitude to homeowners in that situation.

A mother and son have described their ordeal of being held captive near the Wicklow Mountains during a €2.28m robbery almost 15 years ago.

A Central Criminal Court jury has found a Mulhuddart man who admitted stabbing a father-of-one three times not guilty of his murder but guilty of manslaughter.

A model, who admitted harassing celebrity chef Dylan McGrath, has been spared a jail sentence and a criminal record but has been given a lifetime ban on contacting him.

RTÉ First Dates star Daphney Sanasie reportedly bombarded celebrity chef Dylan McGrath with nuisance phonecalls and disturbing messages including texts about “demons and souls” because she thought it was funny.

A contender for a national boxing title has avoided jail after pleading guilty to making threats to kill or cause serious harm.

The State Pathologist has told the trial of a man accused of murdering a father-of-one in North Dublin that the deceased had 30 stab wounds.

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 murder suspect, who was refused compassionate bail to attend his grandfather’s funeral this weekend, was unable to tell the High Court todday what his dead relative’s address was.

An addicted gambler who stole over €78,000 from the insurance company where he had worked for seven years has been given a four-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The brother of a convicted murderer who was involved in smuggling contraband into Mountjoy prison, has had his sentence adjourned to allow him to attend for drug treatment.

A PRISON officer faces up to 10 years behind bars for smuggling drugs to a convicted murderer in order to feed his own habit, a court heard yesterday.

A NEW specialised educational course for pig farmers has been developed by Teagasc to meet a training gap identified in a strategic plan for the industry which has a farm gate value of around €360 million annually.

THE vast, almost bottomless and uncharted, internet can enrage and inform, entertain and educate, mislead and have a negative or positive influence, but even in this huge resource, the sites devoted to trying to find missing people are amongst the most poignant.

A retired Securicor supervisor has revealed that someone who knew the company’s ATM runs could work out the amount of money in a van by studying the "trip sheet".

Gardaí at Ballyfermot in Dublin are renewing their appeal for help in tracing the whereabouts of 74-year-old Seamus Clarke.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing a 74-year-old Dublin man who has been missing from his home for the past three days.

A long-term heroin addict who was in heavy debt to drugs criminals has been given an 11-year sentence in consecutive terms by Judge Katherine Delahunt for possessing two stashes of heroin within 14 months.

A man was today charged with the murder of a shop owner in Dublin city centre.

A high-flying stockbroker quit a top firm because it ignored the aggressive bullying and intimidation he suffered from a colleague and long-standing friend, an employment tribunal heard today.

A teenage boy, who viciously attacked a female garda and dragged her along the ground by her shirt after he taunted her with lewd comments, has been detained for nine months.

A Ballymun mother has decided to move house to help her son quit crime, a court heard today.