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(Pictured: Ms Gemma O'Doherty. Photo: Collins) The mother of a teenager who tragically died by suicide has claimed before the High Court that she has been the...
A housing charity now believes that those currently unlawfully occupying a property it owns in the capital are members of an organisation calling itself the...
A “committed, long-term child abuser” who had to be extradited to face trial has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of four...
The High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement allowing a Roscommon man to keep his family home and write off more than €1.1m in debt owed...
By Fiona Ferguson A judge has praised a survivor of sexual abuse as a small child by an older teenager for speaking out and leading the way for others to come...
The jury who convicted a man of drugging and raping his then partner's 15-year-old sister and later sexually abusing another, along with choking that victim's...
(Pictured: The late Mr Peter Pringle. Photo: Collins) Legal actions brought against the State by the late Peter Pringle, who was originally sentenced to death...
A HSA inspector has criticised a “laissez-faire approach” to health and safety by the Irish branch of engineering consultancy giant Ove Arup after the death...
A judge has declined to grant orders directing gardai to arrest and bring before the High Court “unknown persons” who have barricaded themselves into a Dublin...
A mean-spirited burglar who broke into the house of his 81-year-old neighbour has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that evidence of his identification...
A violent convicted rapist who carried out a “shocking, brutal and cowardly" sex attack on an “unsuspecting woman” walking her dog in a Cork park just 18 days...
A man who was 17 when he coerced a 12-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him has lost an appeal against what he claimed was the severity of his four-year...
By Declan Brennan and Eimear Dodd A convicted rapist who attacked a woman in her own home three months after his release from prison is to be placed under the...
The five-and-a-half year jail term imposed on a man who abused five sisters over almost an entire decade was not excessive, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The...
By Fiona Ferguson A Tipperary man was 13 years old when he began sexually abusing his four-year-old neighbour, the Central Criminal Court has heard. The now...
(Pictured: Mr Simeon Burke. Photo: Collins) Audio recordings of court proceedings will be released to gardai and to Simeon Burke as part of an appeal against...
A 72-year-old man who claimed he was "appalled and enraged" at the availability of child abuse material online and collected over 2,000 such images and 600...
The Kuwaiti Embassy has successfully fended off an employment rights claim by one of its former staff, despite failing in a bid to claim diplomatic immunity....
By Eimear Dodd A young man who was part of a group who chased a delivery driver – who was seen holding a knife and was facing prosecution before he passed...
(Pictured L-R: PJ Sweeney, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne. Photos: Collins) By Declan Brennan and Eimear Dodd Shortly after 5am on December 16, 2018, a convoy of...
A convicted killer who absconded from custody in Northern Ireland seven months ago has been granted bail after his arrest here on an extradition warrant....
(Pictured: Accused Mr Patrick J Sweeney. Photo: Collins) The jury in the trial of four men accused of taking part in a vigilante group attack on security...
(Pictured L-R: Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of four men...
by Isabel Hayes Over the course of three weeks, a Central Criminal Court trial heard “harrowing” evidence of “gratuitous sexual violence” against four child...
By Declan Brennan A man who violently sexually assaulted a women in her own home before on the same night going on to sexually assault another while her...
(Pictured: Paul Hendrick. Photo: Collins) By Eimear Dodd A retired school principal and former Christian Brother repeatedly abused one of his pupils during...
by Fiona Magennis The loss experienced by the families and loved ones of those who perished in the Stardust fire has “left an indelible mark" on the...
(Pictured L-R: Messrs David Lawlor, Martin O'Toole, Paul Beirne and Patrick Sweeney. Photo: Collins) By Declan Brennan A jury is set to begin their...
By Fiona Ferguson A Galway farmer raped and sexually abused his young nephew as the child helped him out with tasks round the farmyard such as checking the...
A former soldier who was jailed for 10 years for “a cynical and cold campaign of rape” against a woman he had been dating has appealed his conviction, arguing...
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