The parents of a man, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother's partner by reason of insanity, took him to hospital just weeks earlier after he told them he had to kill the deceased.

Gangland criminal Alan Wilson has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder Gary Hanley.

A man who fired eight shots from a semi-automatic pistol as he raided a Dublin post office has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

Former INM CEO Gavin O'Reilly is concerned his personal data may have been accessed during an alleged data breach at the company in 2014, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has received the first interim report of the inspectors appointed by it to investigate the conduct of affairs at Independent News & Media.

It has cost the State over an estimated €220,000 (incl VAT) in lawyers' fees from the collapsed trial of Patrick Hutch for the murder of David Byrne.

A detective sergeant has identified Frederick 'Freddie' Thompson as the man in one of four ‘spotter’ cars allegedly used in the killing of a Dublin shoe shop manager.

Fugitive struck-off solicitor Michael Lynn is due to be extradited from Brazil next week, the High Court heard today.

A man attending a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin was "relieved" when people he thought were gardaí arrived after a shooting before one of them took aim with a gun and shot a person, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

Four loaded weapons “primed, armed and ready” for use were among an arsenal of 15 firearms found at an “elaborate” industrial unit purporting to be a legitimate business.

A man who was convicted of kidnapping a child in London has been jailed for the abuse and rape of a teenage boy here in the mid-90s.

A "martial arts expert" who punched his pregnant wife unconscious and fractured her jaw, has been jailed for three years.

A man jailed for the rape and sexual assault of a woman has had his 15-year prison sentence increased to 19 years, following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions. He abducted the woman’s child in the same incident.

As six men were found not guilty of falsely imprisoning former tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser at a water charges protest, Isabel Hayes looks at how the arguments played out. 

Former Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said that it was her “absolute conviction” that “protest in Ireland is a sacred right”, but said it was also her conviction that it should be peaceful protest.

Seven water protesters accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton have told a court they will not speak about the trial at an upcoming protest rally.

The murder charges against seven Dubliners have been dropped, after five of them pleaded guilty to Dale Creighton’s manslaughter and their two co-accused pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

A Polish man who stabbed a fellow countryman to death in the abandoned pub where they lived will be sentenced next month at the Central Criminal Court.

A drug addict who was “out of it” when he took a six-year-old boy from outside a shop before leaving him minutes later and taking his chicken nuggets has been jailed for three years today.

A woman who was almost three times the legal limit when she knocked down a mother of two, leaving her with a brain injury, has been jailed for three years.

Former Mountjoy Prison governor John Lonergan described the reported comments of Eamonn Lillis after his release — “I’ve done my time” — as “arrogant” and “upsetting” for people.

A jury has acquitted a Galway man who was charged with raping a student the morning after they met in a Sligo night club and had consensual sex together.

A Dublin man who stabbed his former girlfriend’s new partner after hiding in her flat to confirm his suspicions about her new relationship has been jailed for seven years.

A Donegal man has avoided a jail term for criminal damage to his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook page after he admitted posting an offensive “status update” on it.

A Co Donegal man convicted of 65 counts of raping and sexually assaulting two close family members, sometimes on a daily basis for over a decade, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A man who fell out with his partner, then turned to her 10-year-old daughter for sex has been sentenced to 12 years, with three suspended.

A man who after falling out with his partner turned to her ten year old daughter for sex has been sentenced to 12 years with three suspended at the Central Criminal Court.

A Wicklow man has been jailed for 10 years for the regular and systematic abuse of his stepdaughter over a four-year period.

A Wicklow woman who was abused as a teenager by her step-father has described the man as “a horrible monster” who took her childhood.

A Dublin man who had €780,000 worth of drugs, including €100,000 worth of heroin, at his home has been jailed for seven years.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a man appealing against his conviction for indecently assaulting his daughter over 30 years ago.

Two men and a woman “caught red-handed” with more than €1.3m worth of heroin and cannabis in a targeted garda operation have been jailed for between three and seven years.

Two men described as “puppets on a string” for a €1.2m drugs operation have each been given a 10-year suspended sentence today.

A woman who alleges that she was sexually abused by her older brother during her childhood has told a jury that she started going to the toilet in a friend’s back garden to avoid her sibling.

A convicted murderer and a Louth man have been sentenced for stabbing two friends after a dispute over a disturbance from a house party.

An army sergeant who was found with child pornography images “buried” in the memory of his computer has being acquitted by direction of a judge.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a Dublin man appealing against his 18-year sentence for having €6.4 million worth of heroin in his van.

A Louth man and woman jailed for three years in connection with the death of a father-of-one, who was violently kicked and beaten at a Christmas party more than four years ago, have had their sentences increased today, after a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has secured orders for the seizure of approximately €146,000 from a Co Sligo family which the bureau says are the proceeds of crime.

A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years after he pleaded guilty to firearms and drug offences.

A drunk driver who was caught with €81,000 worth of cannabis after he was pulled over has been jailed for four years.

A man who was jailed three years ago for terrorising his neighbours in a drunken early morning attack while wearing only his boxer shorts and assaulted a garda has had a suspended sentence partly re-activated.

Six men have been sentenced over a “violent protest” in Mountjoy Prison in which five prison officers were injured.

A Dublin teenager has been cleared of murdering his neighbour whom he shot in the chest after the 50-year-old had chased him down a lane wearing a balaclava, because the youth had egged his house.