St Patrick’s Day celebrations continue to gather momentum around the world. 

Lawyers for the State have been told to prepare a “substantive response” in the lead-up to Brian Meehan’s bid to have his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin declared a miscarriage of justice.

Convicted murderer Nathan Killeen will not stand trial for the 2008 murder of James Cronin after the State entered a nolle prosequi — a decision not to proceed — on the charge yesterday.

World Fiddle Day is to be celebrated by a host of string and bow experts in one of the country’s renowned traditional music strongholds at the weekend.

Circumstantial evidence in the money-laundering trial will include ‘unorthodox’ ways in which the accused, Timothy Cunningham allegedly handled money, including his arrival at the home of a jewellers with over £200,000 (€244,000) in Northern Irish sterling in Tesco bags, which the jeweller hid under his parents’ bed.

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a Cork financial advisor accused of laundering money arising out of the notorious robbery of the Northern Bank in Belfast in 2004.

A man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a father-of-one.

A man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a father-of-one in north Dublin.

The State Pathologist has told the trial of a man accused of murdering a father-of-one in North Dublin that the deceased had 30 stab wounds.

The trial of a man accused of murdering a father-of-one has heard the deceased sustained 30 stab wounds.

Evidence of garda interviews conducted with two men accused of the possession of an assault rifle and a handgun is not admissible at their trial, the Special Criminal Court has ruled.

Cork folk in Duhallow are usually gearing up for the All-Ireland football final, but the rise of hurling in the division is no accident.

No matter how loud he turned the music up on his walkman, no matter no hard he pressed the headphones against his ears, John Dundon could not drown out the reality facing him in Court 11.

The Special Criminal Court has heard Garryowen rugby player Shane Geoghegan was shot five times in the head and body at a housing estate in Limerick.

The Special Criminal Court has heard there has been another unexpected twist regarding a witness in the murder trial of Limerick man John Dundon.

The trial of John Dundon for the murder of Garryowen rugby player Shane Geoghegan will resume at the non jury Special Criminal Court tomorrow.

Brendan Nix told the court that a member of the Dundon family contacted John Devane solicitors on Tuesday and asked the Limerick firm to come on record for the accused man.

Rugby player Shane Geoghegan was the unintended victim of a shooting that was meant for another man and was ordered by John Dundon, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A hospital consultant could find no reason why an illiterate prisoner due to defend himself at a murder trial fainted and cut his head in a cell, a court has heard.

The opening day of the trial of John Dundon for the murder of Shane Geoghegan saw the accused man taken to hospital for a head injury after earlier telling the court he was illiterate and had sacked his legal team and elected to represent himself.

An illiterate prisoner on hunger strike fainted and cut his head moments before he was due to defend himself in a murder trial, a court heard.

The Supreme Court will hear an urgent appeal aimed at delaying the murder trial of hunger-strike prisoner John Dundon later this month.

A wheelchair-bound John Dundon appeared in a state of undress before the Special Criminal Court this morning to hear that his trial for the murder of Garryowen rugby player Shane Geoghegan has been adjourned until Friday.

There’s a photo that has pride of place on a wall in a comfortable home in Cork city, a photo that has been a long, long time in the framing.

Limerick man John Dundon will go on trial in June next year for the murder of Garryowen rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

Torrential rain may have been a factor in the death of a 23-year-old woman, from a well-known north Cork business family, whose car was in collision with a truck on a main road on the outskirts of Cork City.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of the only person convicted in relation to the Northern Bank robbery, who has brought the first appeal on the basis of a recent Supreme Court ruling on search warrants issued under a key piece of anti-terrorist legislation.

The leading barrister who shot to prominence for her cross-examination of Sharon Collins, aka “Lying Eyes”, was the best paid senior prosecutor in the country last year, new figures from the DPP show.

Closing speeches have been heard today in the Special Criminal Court trial of two Limerick brothers accused of threatening to kill four members of the same family.

The Special Criminal Court trial of two Limerick brothers charged with threatening to kill four members of the same family has heard legal submissions at the close of the prosecution case.

A woman has admitted being in a “loving embrace” with a violent sex offender just one day after complaining to gardaí that she was in fear for her life following threats made by two of her ex-partner’s brothers.

A Garda witness in the trial of two Limerick men accused of threatening to kill a mother and three of her children has denied that one of the complainants received “special status” after making the allegations.

A garda witness in the trial of two Limerick man accused of threatening to kill a mother and three of her children has denied that one of the complainants received any “special status” after making the allegations.

A woman was told she was digging her own grave and it was “very easy to make people disappear” by a Limerick man accused of threatening to kill her and three of her children, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Two Limerick men threatened to kill a mother and her three children after a row over visiting rights for the children of their incarcerated brother, their Special Criminal Court trial will hear.

The Shane Geoghegan murder trial has today heard that the apparent intended target lived four doors away from the rugby player on the night he was shot, in a case of mistaken identity.

The jury in the Shane Geoghegan murder trial have been given a demonstration of how the gun used to murder the Garryowen rugby player could be loaded and unloaded.

The jury in the Shane Geoghegan murder trial has been given a demonstration of how the gun used to murder the Garryowen rugby player could be loaded and unloaded.

The man charged with murdering rugby player Shane Geoghegan allegedly admitted to the Limerick shooting during garda interviews, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Art coup points to promising future for new auction house says Des O’Sullivan

A Co Monaghan man was cleared of having explosives by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgement on legal issues in the trial of a Monaghan man charged with having explosives in his garage.

SHARON “Lying Eyes” Collins has lost her appeal against her conviction for soliciting a man to kill her partner and his two sons.

Four gardaí have been acquitted of forcing entry to a Basin Street flat, trespass and assaulting a teenage occupant.