A man who was facing a charge of aggravated burglary has had his case dropped because the warrant gardaí used to arrest him at his family home is now unconstitutional.

The 41-year-old man who killed a teenager in a bar on an island off the Donegal coast is at “minimal risk of reoffending”, his defence counsel told a court today.

A Meath man jailed for gross indecency with a man with a mental age of seven was has been released from custody after the balance of his sentence was suspended on appeal.

A second man has been jailed for a botched armed robbery where the raiders had to be rescued by the fire brigade after they had been locked in by an accomplice.

A man who received a suspended sentence for repeatedly stabbing a Polish national, leaving him with life-threatening injuries, now faces a jail term of two-and-a-half years following a successful appeal by the State.

A Dublin man who robbed a bookies around the corner from where he lived all his life has been jailed for one year.

A Polish national has escaped a jail term after he spat blood into the mouth of a garda while he was being taken into custody for being drunk and disorderly.

Three young men broke into an innocent man’s house and accused him of being a paedophile after a girl made false allegations that someone had exposed themselves to her.

A young man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of repeatedly flashing a green laser at a garda helicopter in a manner which could have caused the pilot to crash.

A man accused of more than 100 counts of rape and sexual assault against his daughter told gardaí that the mother of the complainant tried to kill her child on at least three occasions, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A drug user whose life was threatened after he was caught with over €40,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis has been jailed for eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Georgian national who was tackled and disarmed of his gun by the owner of the shop he raided has been jailed for seven years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A mechanic who fatally injured a student in a hit and run accident and later claimed someone else had been driving his car has been jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.

A South African dementia suffer lost a bag containing €150,000 worth of cannabis in Dublin airport, the Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A 29-year-old industrial window cleaner has been jailed for the mandatory five years for having a sawn-off shotgun in a stolen car he was driving.

A then homeless man who slashed the throat of a Filipino transvestite four days after he had sex with him has been sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenager has been given a suspended three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for keeping almost €20,000 worth of heroin in the attic of his bedroom.

An alcoholic schizophrenic Westmeath resident who threw missiles at gardaí during the 2006 "Love Ulster" parade riot has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who recieved a suspended sentence for concealing information from gardaí about the violent death of one of his friends has had two years of that sentence reactivated after he was convicted of new offences.

A 57-year-old man awaiting sentence for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old boy has had his bail revoked after he allegedly since tried to abduct a child and on a separate occasion exposed himself at a playground.

A Roscommon man who raped a baby-sitter over two decades ago has been jailed for 11 years.

A convicted killer who is serving a life sentence has been jailed for 18 months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a house burglary he committed an hour before he murdered a Chinese student.

A Dublin father of three has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing an imitation firearm in a stolen BMW car.

A heroin addict who was paid by criminals to steal cars for use by them later in serious offences has been given a four years sentence by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Roscommon man has been convicted of raping a babysitter more than two decades ago.

A Louth man who abused his daughter and niece when they were aged four and ten has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A postman who had never come to garda attention before and "was at a loss" to explain why he stabbed a man at a house party has been given a two-year prison sentence.

Fines totalling €250,000 have been imposed on two companies and suspended prison sentences on two men arising out of the death of a young father of one on a Bray building site.

A Longford teenager who beat a then 13-year-old girl "to pulp" and viciously raped her after she blacked out from his attempts to strangle her has been given nine years detention.

A heroin addict who told a 12-year-old girl he would "stab her to death" if she did not hand over her mobile phone, has been jailed for two years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two former flatmates of a young couple who were allegedly strangled and then had their bodies burned have identified a man accused of the double murder as the person shown on CCTV footage of the entrance to the apartment.