Irish Water has been given more time to consider how it will plead in a prosecution for not implementing a plan to improve drinking water quality in Carraroe in Co. Galway writes Tom Tuite.

Prosecutors in the North have insisted it was in the public interest to bring a case against a woman found guilty of buying drugs online to abort her unborn child.

A Dublin man has been cleared of murdering his neighbour, but found guilty of obstructing the prosecution of his brother, who later admitted killing him.

A couple targeted Becky Watts due to their shared dislike of her and planned to use the teenager as their “sexual plaything”, a court heard.