The trial of a Wicklow businessman accused of raping and indecently assaulting a schoolgirl 30 years ago has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

THE trial of four gardaí accused of beating a young Dublin man with batons after breaking into his home has been adjourned until next Tuesday.

Four gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for allegedly forcing their way into a flat without a warrant and beating up a male occupant.

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors have been fined €40,000 each at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to their waste management practices.

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in October in relation to waste management practices.

PAYMENTS by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to barristers last year increased by 11% to €15.2 million in spite of the Government imposing a 8% cut on lawyers’ fees in March of last year.

Someone checked the credit limit on a Clare man’s American Express card from Ireland, while his partner and the Las Vegas poker dealer she is accused of conspiring with to kill him and his two sons were both out of the country, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to kill her partner and his two sons told gardai he didn’t know how a contact lens case that tested positive for Ricin came to be in his cell at Limerick prison a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has been hearing that the lethal toxin Ricin was found in the prison cell of a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to kill her partner and his two sons.

A former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of being hired to kill a Clare man and his two sons told gardaí he had an affair with the woman accused of hiring him a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A man whose partner is accused of conspiring with a Las Vegas poker dealer to organise his assassination and those of his two sons, has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court he decided not get married a second time after his solicitor told him prenuptial agreements had no legal standing in Ireland.

A man who, with his brother and father, was allegedly the subject of a contract killing has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court he was told to hand €100,000 to a woman he met in a local hotel to cancel the hit.

A man who was allegedly the subject of a contract killing has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court he met a man calling himself Tony who offered him the chance to buy himself, his brother and his father out of the contract for €100,000.

A DECISION in an appeal brought by Dublin woman Linda Mulhall to have her 15-year sentence reduced for the manslaughter of her mother’s boyfriend, whose body was cut up and dumped, has been put off until the new year.

The 54 year-old man accused of hacking to death a taxi driver in Clare was "making up" stories about voices telling him to commit the killing, a forensic psychiatrist told a jury in the Central Criminal Court today.

The skull of a 56-year-old hackney driver allegedly murdered by his friend in Clare was 'severely fractured' by a 'chopping instrument', a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

One of two men accused of murdering a Vietnamese man and assaulting a Chinese man, gave a “Kung Foo kick” to the Chinese man during an assault in Temple Bar two years ago, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

A murder trial jury has heard how the victim was stabbed and hacked from head to toe in a "sustained and vicious assault" during which his killer attempted to decapitate him.

Two young Dublin men have been found not guilty of murdering a civil servant by direction of Mr Justice Liam McKechnie at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Somalian man today admitted holding his baby son by the feet and hitting his head off a wall after evil spirits told him to "hit him, hit him".