LATEST: The sentencing hearing date on the case has been fixed for July 26.

A man who falsely imprisoned, tied up and raped a woman in a hotel meeting room during a Dublin gaming convention has been jailed for 12 years.

Former associates will link three men, two from Dublin, to aggravated burglaries in Co Limerick during which neighbouring families were allegedly overpowered by an armed gang, a jury heard yesterday.

A prominent journalist has pleaded guilty to six sexual offences against a girl under the age of 17, writes Conor Gallagher

One man was imprisoned for life while another will be sentenced next Monday for their part in killing a man during an argument over a pedigree chihuahua.

Latest: A man accused of murdering a man in a row over the breeding of Chihuahuas insists he had to use force to defend his friend.

DPP withdraws sexual exploitation charges against teacher as complainant admits allegations false

A man who fatally stabbed his housemate in the heart when they rowed about food during a drinking binge was jailed for five years.

A Pakistani man has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court for killing a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

The Court of Appeal will not review Wayne Dundon’s prison sentence for making threats to kill and intimidating witnesses, despite claims that his six-year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

A man who denied any involvement in the 2011 manslaughter of a teacher and publican was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison for withholding evidence during Garda investigations.

A 73-year-old Dutch man, who was one of three men found with almost €5m worth of cannabis herb and resin, has today been jailed for seven years.

A Dublin playwright was asked to join a criminal operation to extort money from a business because he was good at voice characterisations, a court has heard.

The Court of Appeal has doubled the "very seriously inadequate" six-year sentence imposed on a man who raped one woman and sexually assaulted another within hours of each other.

A man who stabbed two innocent bystanders during the infamous Swedish House Mafia concerts in the Phoenix Park has been jailed for four years.

A young man who stabbed two innocent bystanders during the infamous Swedish House Mafia concerts in the Phoenix Park has been jailed for four years.

A man who slapped, punched, and threw a 10-month-old baby in what was described as a “truly horrific” case of child cruelty has had his three-year sentence increased to the maximum of seven years following a successful appeal by the DPP.

The prosecution case has concluded in the trial of a Trinity College graduate and two men who are charged with the possession of firearms and ammunition.

A Wicklow solicitor who fraudulently borrowed nearly €1m in mortgage bridging loans in an “elaborate and sophisticated deception” has been jailed for three years.

A Wicklow solicitor who fraudulently borrowed nearly €1m in mortgage bridging loans in an "elaborate and sophisticated deception" has been jailed for three years.

A Wicklow solicitor was suffering from Battered Housewife Syndrome when she fraudulently borrowed nearly €1m in mortgage bridging loans a court has heard.

A Wicklow accountant who ran over a trainee nurse with his Jeep in Dublin City Centre has received an 18-month suspended sentence and a four-year driving ban.

A recidivist burglar who assaulted and threatened to kill a 97-year-old woman in her home has had his six-year jail term increased by four years after a successful appeal by the DPP.

Cork City have been fined by the FAI after one of its supporters racially abused Bray Wanderers player Ismahil Akinade at last week’s home game at Turners Cross.

A father of two has been jailed after he was captured on CCTV footage taking €250,000 from an AIB employee who had been forced by 'tiger' kidnappers to steal the cash from his workplace.

A Westmeath father who admitted during counselling sessions that he had abused other children has been sentenced to eight years for the rape and sexual assault of his wife’s 13-year-old niece.

A man who viciously assaulted a public health nurse while she was visiting his three-month old son has been given a 40 month sentence.

A teenage girl has told a murder trial today that, shortly after the attack, the defendant had blood on his clothes and was saying that he had jumped on the victim’s head.

A Limerick man told gardaí in interview that a mother-of-three he is accused of threatening to kill was a “crack-head” who had a “vendetta” against him, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

Four men have been sentenced for their role in an attack on a man in a shopping centre in front of numerous shopkeepers and members of the public.

A young man who was made hold a weapons cache, including a machine gun and silencer, because he had run up a drug debt with a criminal gang has been jailed for five years.

A garda “whipped” and “pounded” a man with his baton while he was on the ground, it has been alleged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who was 24 years old when he was having a consensual sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl has been jailed for eight months after serving 18 months in prison on remand.

A Kerry woman has told a jury that she was on her way home one night when she was dragged by the hair and knocked to the ground by a stranger before she was forced to perform oral sex on him.

A jury at the trial of a Clondalkin man accused of pointing a loaded gun at gardaí has heard that the weapon allegedly recovered from him was “cocked, ready for use” and had its serial number erased.

A Dublin man has denied in evidence at the Central Criminal Court that he raped a woman as she lay in her bed while her husband slept downstairs.

A drug user whose life was threatened after he was caught with over €40,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis has been jailed for eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A garda fingerprint expert has said he couldn’t identify some marks found at the house where armed raiders took a family hostage in the €2.28 million "tiger kidnapping" four years ago.

A taxi driver who carried cocaine valued at over €250,000 in his cab for "a few hundred euro" to help pay off his loans has been jailed for nine years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kildare man and his friend who beat up a stranger and kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious, after "slagging" off his name have been sentenced to 18 months and two years respectively.