Emilia Fox is getting a new co-star on 'Silent Witness'.

Withnail and I star Richard E Grant will play a fiendishly festive baddie in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special.

A one-size fits all, lock-them-up approach to dealing with substance abuse in the courts did not make sense, the chief clerk at the country’s only drug treatment court has said.

THIRTY-TWO anglers, representing 12 sea angling clubs, competed in the Munster Open Boat deep sea angling competition fished out of Dunmore East, Co Waterford.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday led a huge operation against a suspected organised crime gang in the north-west.

GARDAÍ are studying a long list of suspects in the murder of gangster David Lynch — a killing that also left a boy with gunshot wounds.

Gardaí were today continuing to investigate the murder of a 39-year-old man who was gunned down close to his Sligo home.

A seventh person has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old man in Sligo.

Gardaí have arrested six people in connection with the murder of 23-year-old Tom Ward in Sligo.

Emotions ran high following the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of Padriag Nally at Dublin Central Criminal Court today.

Co Mayo farmer Padraig Nally has been cleared of the manslaughter of father-of-11 John Ward whom he shot twice and beat with a stick after the deceased entered his land.

The manslaughter trial of Mayo farmer Padráig Nally resumed at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today after he was released from hospital where he was being treated for a medical condition.

The manslaughter trial of Mayo farmer Padraig Nally resumed at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today after he was released from hospital where he was being treated for a medical condition.

The son of a Traveller shot dead by Mayo farmer Padráig Nally has said the death F***ed up his whole family and that the accused had been allowed to walk around “Scotch free”.

The prosecution in the trial of a Co Mayo farmer who has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of a traveller more than two years ago, has claimed he hit the deceased like a badger, before shooting him as he tried to limp away.

A bachelor farmer who beat up and shot dead a Traveller on his property in Co Mayo felt suicidal afterwards, a court heard today.