The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgement in the case of a Laois man appealing against his life sentence for the repeated rape and sexual assault of his daughter over a 10-year period.

A man who received a five-year sentence for harassing his former girlfriend has had an attempt to overturn his conviction rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today refused a forty-nine-year-old man leave to appeal against his conviction for the rape and sexual of his daughter over a nine-year period.

Lawyers for a Dublin man convicted of strangling his partner of seven years told the Court of Criminal appeal today that it was “unprecedented” for the jury at the original trial to have been shown photographs of the victim’s body.

A retired school teacher succeeded today in overturning his conviction for sexually abusing a former pupil more than 40 years ago.

THE HSE has no legal power to direct the gardaí to restrain a person who is the subject of a care order, the High Court heard yesterday.

A cash injection of €1.7m is being ploughed into tackling drug misuse among young people, it was announced today.