The DPP has been given four weeks to consider the prosecution of a 27-year-old Brazilian man accused of stalking and attacking his former partner in Dublin.

More than 450 drivers were detected speeding between 7am yesterday morning and 7am today during 'Operation Slow Down'.

An application seeking the removal of the liquidator appointed to a third-level college whose closure left hundreds of students "high and dry" has come before the High Court.

A former priest who received a 16 year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of nine boys in the 70s and 80s has admitted abusing two other boys.

A student who suffered brain injuries and required 41 stitches to the head after an assault on Grafton Street has told a court today that he does not want his attacker to go to prison.

A student who required brain surgery after being punched on Grafton Street is urging a court not to jail his attacker.

A 49-year-old barrister has gone on trial having been accused of harassing a younger colleague.

Two men have been jailed for two years each after taking part in “gratuitously violent” robberies in which a gang carried out random attacks on people on the way home from Christmas parties.

ACC BANK said Mick Wallace’s assets will not realise sums sufficient to cover “or substantially cover” the €19 million it is owed by his company.

A LITHUANIAN doctor accused of professional misconduct and poor professional performance stormed out of an Irish Medical Council (IMC) hearing in Dublin yesterday.

A prison officer who was acquitted of making a false needle stick allegation has been awarded his trial costs.

A judge has directed the acquittal of a prison officer accused of making a false needle-stick allegation in Mountjoy Prison.

A convicted rapist who attacked a woman in the street just 36 hours after his release from a 15-year prison sentence has been jailed for a further five years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two men who took part in a row that left a Lithuanian man with horrific injuries were today jailed for three years.

Political Editor Harry McGee looks at how TDs and senators supplement their Oireachtas salary.

A Nigerian who burnt his two-year-old son’s face with boiling water and fractured it has been given a two years suspended sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal.

TEACHERS mounted a stinging attack yesterday on “arrogant and ignorant” inspectors.

A man who claims he was orally raped at blade-point in St Patrick's Institution asked prison warders to bring him a priest after they found him hiding in a toilet cubicle.

FOUR people died in weekend road accidents, bringing the number killed on Irish roads so far this year to 253.

A man who died in a road accident this morning in Co Meath has been named. Jose Kiaku, a 38-year-old north African, had an address at North Circular road, Dublin.