A three-man "hit for hire team", which included an Afghan war veteran, were planning to kill a member of the Hutch family before they were intercepted by gardaí just 250 metres from the "intended target's" home in Dublin's north inner city, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A man who had thousands of images and videos of child abuse, some of which showed children being tortured, will be sentenced in October.

Three inmates who participated in a 12-hour riot at St Patrick’s Institution in the grounds of Mountjoy Prison have been given two-year suspended sentences by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Nigerian asylum seeker was deported from Ireland today while his appeal was still being processed, an anti-racism pressure group has claimed.