People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

A convicted rapist who has been remanded in custody after breaching the conditions of his release will be psychiatrically assessed after a court heard he “wants help.”

A unanimous Supreme Court judgment quashing a man’s attempted rape conviction on grounds that suspects who request a lawyer cannot be questioned by gardaí until they get legal advice has significant implications for Garda investigations and may affect some prosecutions.

One in four CCTV cameras in Dublin are not working — including all 14 in an anti-social black spot which was the scene of riots last summer.

A CONVICTED rapist who attempted to rob a 24-year-old woman 14 hours after being released from prison has had his sentence adjourned until July at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE inquest into the double murder of two cousins, gunned down outside Tesco late last year, has been adjourned to allow gardaí more time to investigate.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a Dublin man convicted of murdering a 27-year-old man on the Clontarf Road more than five years ago.

GARDAÍ do not suspect the double murder of two young cousins last week was related to a €6,000 drug debt.

SENIOR detectives have said there was no evidence to suggest dissident republicans were behind the double murder of two young cousins this week.

SERVICES for the country’s most vulnerable people are being strangled by Government cutbacks which will result in the loss of 5,000 jobs in the community and voluntary sectors, according to a new report.

A 25-year-old man was remanded in custody today in connection to a fatal shooting last month.

A robber who raided a bookmakers armed with a plastic handgun in order to pay off a debt has been given a five-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

President Mary McAleese found herself in front of a judge today – as she opened the multi million criminal courts complex in Dublin.

SOCIETY has to move away from stigmatising troublesome kids as “bad” and distinguish between them and their behaviour, according to a garda inspector.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of a fatal shooting on the Clontarf Road four years ago has heard that fingerprints matching the accused were found on a paper bag which contained the murder weapon.

A Central Criminal Court jury has heard that the shooting of Noel Roche on the Clontarf Road four years ago was a "gangland hit".

The jury in the trial of a man accused of a fatal shooting on the Clontarf Road in 2005 has heard that four shots were fired into the passenger window of a vehicle which had tinted windows.

The trial of a man accused of shooting another man dead in a car in north Dublin in 2005 has begun today at the Central Criminal Court.

SEPARATE murder investigations are under way following the discovery of two bodies in Dublin.

GARDAÍ suspect a notorious crime boss may be behind the murder of a serious criminal in north Dublin in a day in which another man was stabbed to death and a young man had a lucky escape in a gun attack.

A Dublin man who stole a cash box containing €40,000 was arrested after gardaí followed a trail of ink and smoke from the box’s security devices back to his home, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A man appeared in court today charged with a gangland murder almost three years ago.

TEN people have been evicted for antisocial behaviour by the country’s largest local authority in the first seven months of this year.

Gardaí today vowed to crackdown on anti-social behaviour in a troubled housing estate after residents said they were living in fear.

Dublin’s Lord Mayor Eibhlin Byrne will meet senior gardaí today after three people were arrested following disturbances in a north inner city housing estate.

A 15-year-old boy, who was described earlier this week as a “one man crime-wave”, has received an eight-month sentence.

A flat complex in Dublin’s north inner city is to be redeveloped as part of a €180m housing project, it emerged today.

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs and his accomplice have been given five-year suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs has been remanded on bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.