A Garda and his wife were forced to leave behind their life in west Clare after receiving a severed pig’s head in the post.

The man accused of sending a pig’s head in the post to the home of a garda told gardaí that “it is only a pig’s head, not a human head”.

The wife of a serving Garda told a court yesterday that she was “afraid, disgusted, and horrified” when a box containing a severed pig’s head was delivered to her home.

A Dublin man charged with sending a pig’s head to the home of a garda yesterday pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence.

Three men have been sentenced for carrying out a forced eviction for a landlord who was having trouble with squatting tenants.

Four men have admitted being involved in an aggravated burglary while in possession of two guns and a machete at the rural home of a young family last year.

A Brazilian student has been given a three-month suspended sentence and a €600 fine for an "elaborate hoax" in which she claimed she had been raped by two men in Dublin.

A Brazilian student has been given a three-month suspended sentence and a €600 fine for an “elaborate hoax” in which she claimed she had been raped by two men in Dublin.

A Brazilian student accused of making a false report to gardaí claiming she had been raped in Dublin is to be tried in the district court if she pleads guilty.

Gardaí investigating an alleged sexual assault in Dublin are making an appeal for information.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses to an alleged serious sexual assault on Sunday night.

Gardaí at Mountjoy are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a woman on the north side of Dublin.

A man has been jailed for three years today for dumping the body of his friend in a water-filled ditch near Dublin Airport.

A Dublin man will be sentenced for impeding a murder trial after he was found not guilty last month of murder.

A man who beat an American pilot in the head with a golf club as he walked along Drumcondra Road Lower in Dublin has been jailed for 18 months.

A serial sex offender has been jailed for two years for molesting two young girls on a LUAS tram in Dublin.

A man has been cleared of murdering his friend, but convicted of impeding the prosecution after dumping his body.

A man has been found not guilty of murdering his friend at a flat in Dublin, but guilty of impeding the prosecution.

A man charged with murdering his friend has told his trial that the State’s main witness was the killer, but admitted that he disposed of the body.

A Dublin man accused of stabbing his friend through the heart has told his murder trial that he saw another man do it.

A man accused of murder has claimed that a prosecution witness carried out the killing after the deceased man teased him about being arrested for sexual assault.

New charges, including false imprisonment and possession of firearms, have been filed against seven men accused of “terrorising” a family during an aggravated burglary last year.

A man who molested two Limerick girls on the LUAS while they were on their way to a Rihanna concert in Dublin is to be further assessed while in custody, prior to being sentenced.

Six of the seven men charged with carrying out an aggravated burglary at the home of a young family last month have again been remanded in custody following their latest court appearance.

A gang who broke into the house of a couple and their three daughters last week allegedly threatened to “shoot the small kids” before fleeing the scene with cash and jewellery, a court has heard.

Seven men with addresses in north Dublin have appeared in court in connection with an aggravated burglary in Co Tipperary last Thursday when a family was “terrorised” by an armed gang.

A convicted child molester who sexually assaulted two Limerick girls on the LUAS while they were en-route to a Rihanna concert will be sentenced in January.

A man charged with sending a pig’s head to the home of a Garda remains at large.

A 31-year-old Dublin man has been charged with the murder of a father of two, who was found stabbed to death and dumped in a ditch.

A man who assaulted his wife was later attacked by the victim’s relative who cut his throat using a Stanley knife blade.

A Dublin man has been given a life sentence for murder and his two co-accused have been jailed for manslaughter of a 27-year-old ‘model worker’ they killed on his way to work.

The Central Criminal Court has heard a 27-year-old Polish man died after three men attacked him in North Dublin for "a buzz".

A 20-year-old Dublin man will be sentenced to life in prison for murdering a "model worker" as the victim walked to work in Dublin.

A jury will resume its deliberations tomorrow morning in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering another man as he was walking to work.

A murder trial jury has heard that the deceased was "in the right place at the right time" when "he was "kicked to death" and "left to die".

A murder trial has heard today that the dead man's blood was found on the defendant's shoes in a pattern consistent with kicking or stamping.

A teenage girl has told a murder trial today that, shortly after the attack, the defendant had blood on his clothes and was saying that he had jumped on the victim’s head.

An Albanian man who pleaded guilty to disposing of two pieces of evidence in a Dublin murder case will be sentenced next week.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of three Dublin men accused of murdering a 27-year-old Polish man on his way to work in 2010.

Three Dublin men have gone on trial for the murder of a Polish man who was attacked as he walked to work in Coolock.

A 38-year-old man will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court on Friday charged in connection with the disposal of the body of a murder victim and impeding the murder investigation.

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to six years and two months at the Central Criminal Court for raping a young woman in a Dublin apartment after a night out almost two years ago.

A former drug addict who spent stolen charity money on drugs and a taxi from Mayo to Galway has received a partially suspended nine-year sentence for this theft and two robberies.

THE Archbishop of Dublin has secured summary judgment for €1.5 million against a Dublin solicitor who admitted misappropriation of the amount after it was bequeathed to the church for charitable purposes.