A judge said yesterday that “there is nothing as appalling as a liar” after ruling that a speeding motorist perjured himself in the witness box.

A distraught father told a court yesterday that he has changed addresses five times in the past year and a half to protect himself from his son.

A mother who used her five-year-old to steal two baskets of clothes from Penneys had a jail term overturned yesterday.

A five-year-old boy employed by his mother to steal a basket of clothes from Penneys couldn’t lift the basket because of the weight and instead had to drag the basket out of the store.

A mother appeared in court yesterday on assault and neglect charges concerning her then five-month-old daughter allegedly sustaining a skull fracture and other bone injuries.

The district court judge who witnessed a man exposing himself in front of him in court is not to be called to give evidence in the case.

A judge made a couple of thinly veiled barbs at the governor of Limerick prison over TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly enjoying “afternoon tea” at the jail last month.

A man with a serious drinking problem who took a car from a garage forecourt without permission for “a test drive” was caught less than 90 minutes later having crashed it multiple times.

A judge yesterday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of one of the stars of RTÉ’s Bressie’s Teenage Kicks.

One of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has been attacked at his home in Clare by two men, with one wielding a machete.

A teenager was accused of breathtaking arrogance, ignorance, and a lack of human feeling by a judge over parking his car across two disabled spaces.

One of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has been cleared of a weapons offence after a judge ruled the alleged offence did not take place in a public place.

A judge has told a court that a 28-year-old man could have killed someone after placing boulders across a bad bend on a road leading out of Ennis in the middle of the night.

A Limerick man appeared in court charged in connection with a burglary at the lakeside mansion owned by the son of Euromillions winner, Dolores McNamara.

The body of a homeless double leg amputee has been recovered from the grounds of a golf club.

A young mother has made a second appearance in court charged in connection with the multiple stabbing of another woman on the grounds of a primary school.

A CLARE man had his ear almost severed in an alleged hatchet attack by his brother in Shannon on Wednesday night, a court heard.

AN Ennis man lost a finger after being set upon by men with machetes while he was attending a funeral on Saturday afternoon, a senior garda told a court yesterday.

A WOMAN who was jailed for three years earlier this week for dousing petrol over an 18-month-old girl appeared in court concerning a further five charges.