A MAN who accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has been charged with a second count of inventing the story.

An unemployed man gave two false statements to gardaí claiming he was sexually assaulted by 'X-Factor' judge Louis Walsh in a Dublin nightclub, a court heard today.

A man who accused 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub is due back in court today.

A DANCE teacher was charged with making a false accusation that he was groped by X Factor judge Louis Walsh in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with falsely accusing 'X-Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub.

GARDAÍ are investigating an alleged assault by pop promoter Louis Walsh on a man in a Dublin city nightclub.

Additional charges were brought today against a defrocked priest accused of possessing thousands of pornographic images of children.

THE sister of a 33-year-old Co Galway woman who has been missing for ten days has made an emotional appeal in a bid to trace her last known movements.

More charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two, a court heard today.

Sentencing of a 17-year-old girl, who attacked two gardaí following an early morning drink and drugs binge, has been adjourned by Judge Hugh O'Donnell at the Dublin Children's Court.

FOUR members of Dublin Shell to Sea who chained themselves to railings at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources were arrested by gardaí and taken to Harcourt Terrace Garda station.

Four Shell to Sea campaigners have been arrested for public order offences after chaining themselves to the stairwells in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

A man has been arrested in connection with an armed raid in Dublin city centre yesterday afternoon.

A man was being questioned by gardaí today over an armed robbery in a car park.

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for witnesses to an incident in which a 67-year-old cyclist was killed last week.

A former Criminal Assets Bureau officer has given evidence at the corruption trial of George Redmond that he admitted in interview he received Irl£10,000 from the Fianna Fáil Councillor, Patrick Dunne.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in his 30s in connection with a break-in at garda offices on Harcourt Street.

A YOUNG man caught with an AK-47 assault rifle on a busy Dublin street was being questioned by gardaí last night.

THE mother of a young man who died after being hit by a car driven by an off-duty garda said she intended to take the case to the Garda Ombudsman.

GARDAÍ yesterday upgraded a serious assault investigation to a murder hunt after a man died in hospital.

A man accused of murdering a woman in his flat told gardaí he 'saw red' after she bit his penis, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of murdering a woman with a lump hammer after she bit his penis, wrapped her body up in bedclothes and left it outside his flat, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of murdering a mother of two by striking her at least 14 times in the head with a lump hammer told gardaí he “saw red” and was in agony after she bit his penis, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man was today charged with the murder of a shop owner in Dublin city centre.

THE woman murdered and dumped in the street earlier this week was a mother of two who ran a record shop in Dublin city centre.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a woman in Dublin city centre tonight named the victim as Rosemary Dowling.

A man in his fifties was arrested this afternoon in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found dumped on Dublin's Mercer Street earlier this week. He has been taken to Harcourt Terrace Garda Station.

Post mortem results on a woman’s body that was discovered in Dublin city centre yesterday revealed that she died of head injuries.

GARDAÍ hope footage from CCTV cameras will provide clues behind the callous murder of a woman.

The three men convicted of training rebels in Colombia should be allowed to live in peace after completing garda interviews, it was claimed tonight.

ONE of the world’s most wanted men, a Colombian conman who absconded from a prison in Britain, was arrested in Dublin yesterday.

The family of the slain teenager Brian Murphy said tonight that the criminal justice system was “in tatters” and had swung too far in favour of the accused.

The State is not to proceed with the case against David Heatly, the bouncer who was charged with making a false report to gardaí concerning broadcaster Eamon Dunphy.

Broadcaster Eamon Dunphy was "drunk, crude and lewd" on the night he allegedly groped and kissed a bouncer outside a Leeson St nightclub, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

SEPARATE violent incidents this weekend have left two young men seriously ill in hospital.

THREE British citizens appeared before Dublin District Court yesterday after being arrested by gardaí organising security for the May Day celebrations.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial lied in his garda statement because he didn't want to be blamed for the serious part of the fight that led to the death of the 18-year-old student, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.