A water charges protester, convicted yesterday of causing criminal damage to 10 water meters at a housing estate in Carrigaline, Co Cork, was fined €2,000, plus €800 in repairs, and was bound to the peace for two years.

A leading figure in the anti-water charges campaign said he wants to be tried by judge and jury after being charged with theft and causing criminal damage to water meters.

We, the undersigned, express serious reservations about the recently published draft terms of reference of the forthcoming southern Irish inquiry into mother and baby homes, and related matters.

A Trinity College graduate and three men intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a gun dealer have received sentences ranging from six to seven years for the possession of firearms and ammunition.

A Trinity College graduate and two men who were intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a firearms dealer have been found guilty of the possession of handguns and ammunition.

A North Cork man caught with more than €16,000 worth of cannabis told investigating detectives he had the drugs to offer them as bribes to gardaí if he was caught speeding.

Two men have been jailed in an undercover garda operation despite fogetting to collect money for the drugs they sold.

A prominent member of socialist republican group Éirígí is one of four Dublin people who appeared before an out-of-hours sitting of the Special Criminal Court this evening, charged with possessing two handguns and ammunition.

A man who agreed to transport €500,000 worth of drugs from Dublin to Cork has today been jailed for three and half years.

A man who dragged a garda along with his car after refusing to stop for him has been jailed for two and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three men were charged today over a seizure of herbal cannabis worth about €400,000 in north Dublin on Sunday night.

KEEP your friends close, but your enemies closer — that’s Fianna Fáil’s unwritten programme for government.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man lost his life on Saturday night following a diving accident in the sea off Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.

Peter Whelan who admitted murdering a teenager at her home in Cork last April and attempting to murder the victim's friend is going to appeal against the sentence imposed on him.

A 19-year-old Cork man has been jailed for life for the random attack on two young women which left one of them dead.

A 19 year-old Cork man has pleaded guilty to the murder of one woman and the attempted murder of another in Rochestown in Cork last April.

The man accused of murdering a teenager at her home in Cork and attempting to murder her friend had the case against him returned for trial today to the Central Criminal Court.

The man accused of murdering a teenager at her home in Cork last April was today charged with attempting to murder the victim's friend on the same occasion.

A man has been charged with the murder of Nicola Sweeney at her home in Rochestown, Cork last night.