A man has been handed down a life sentence after walking in to a garda station and confessing to “strangling” a Dublin woman in her home 21 years ago in a “completely unprovoked” attack.

A soccer player who broke an opponent’s nose after he headbutted him in an off-the-ball incident has avoided a jail term.

A man already serving life imprisonment for the murder of his best friend in Co Kildare last year has been sentenced to 12 years at the Central Criminal Court for firearmsoffences.

Almost 20 years after her body was found in an apartment in Dublin, a cold case investigation autopsy has been carried out on the remains of a Co Limerick woman.

A woman's remains are to be exhumed in Limerick today as part of an effort to determine how she died 20 years ago.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his best friend in Co Kildare last year.

A man accused of shooting his best friend in Co Kildare last year told gardaí the deceased threatened to rape his grandmother.

A marketing manager turned actor has received a five-year suspended sentence for possessing cannabis and tablets worth €124,000 in Dublin.

A late goal from former Bray Wanderers player Paddy Kavanagh enabled Shelbourne to record their seventh league win of the season in a tense encounter at the Carlisle Grounds last night.

A third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

Almost a third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

Two men have appeared in court in Dublin this morning charged with assault, causing harm to another man in Dublin's City Centre on Friday night.

MEET the musicians who are going to new heights to lift the nations’ spirit on budget day.

Iran’s president predicted the defeat of capitalism and blamed global big business for the suffering of millions, but Germany’s chancellor said market economies were key to lifting the world’s least developed countries out of poverty.

AN INNOVATIVE sex education programme currently offered to schools is in danger because of a lack of government funding.

INTERNATIONAL experts in sexual health are hoping to blow the lid on Ireland’s culture of denial around sex next month.

Dublin City has appealed to the eircom League Board of Control to launch an investigation into the details surrounding Roddy Collins' decision to jump ship from the Vikings to take over as manager of Shamrock Rovers FC.

Dublin City chief executive Ronan Seery has described the surprise defection of manager Roddy Collins to relegation rivals Shamrock Rovers as “the lowest thing I have ever seen in football”.

Dublin City chief executive Ronan Seery has backed manager Roddy Collins’ decision to put 15 of his first-team squad on the transfer list.

Dublin City chief executive Ronan Seery has hailed yesterday’s signings of Barry Ryan and Peter Hynes as a boost for the club’s eircom League premier division survival bid.

Dublin City fans have got their wish and been granted an official supporters club.

Premier Division eircom league side Dublin City FC have launched a share issue scheme.

The 16-year-old passenger in a stolen sports car that killed two gardai has been sentenced to four years detention which is to start in March 2004 after his current two year term ends.

The 16-year-old passenger in a stolen sports car that killed two gardai last April wouldn't have been at liberty at the time had there been a residential place available for him.