An armed gang held up a cash-in-transit van at a Dublin shopping centre today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the life sentence imposed on a serial rapist for a sexual assault on a young woman while she walked to a friend's house to one of 13 years in prison.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in appeal brought by a serial rapist against the life sentence he received for sexually attacked a woman just five months after his release from prison for a previous assault.

Gardaí have appealed for the public's help in locating a missing Dublin man.

An armed raider has escaped with an undisclosed sum of money after holding up a security van in Cork this morning.

A serial rapist who sexually attacked a woman just five months after his release in 2004 from a 10-year rape sentence has been jailed for life by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court today.

Gardaí in Dublin have seized heroin with an estimated street value of €500,000 in the Dun Laoghaire area of south Co Dublin.

A six-week-old baby has been killed in a freak accident in Dublin.