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Cavan · November 09, 2018

Pair jailed for sexually assaulting sleeping woman in private room at nightclub

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, two men have been sentenced for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman while she lay asleep in a private room at a...

Enniskillen · November 08, 2018 Also covered in Letterkenny

Hyde Park bomb accused granted bail ahead of extradition hearing on murder charges

A 66-year-old man from Donegal has been granted bail by the High Court pending an extradition hearing to face charges in Northern Ireland. The man was...

Monaghan · November 08, 2018

Convicted killer carried out armed raids after receiving suspended sentence

A man with previous convictions for manslaughter has been imprisoned after carrying out armed raids whilst serving a suspended sentence. Mark Bissett, aged...

Mayo · November 07, 2018

Rape complainant allegedly "admitted telling lies" during trial, court told

A man convicted in February of sexually assaulting and raping his daughter in County Mayo between 2006 and 2010 has brought a motion before the Court of...

Enniskillen · November 06, 2018

Hyde Park bomb accused appears before court in connection with 1972 murders

A 66-year-old man arrested in County Donegal has been brought before the High Court on a European Arrest Warrant in connection with a 1972 bombing in...

Cavan · November 05, 2018

Tiger kidnap trial hears of car crash

A witness has testified at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of a man charged in connection with a €90,000 tiger kidnapping that occurred in...

Cavan · November 02, 2018

Man arrested on day of tiger kidnap has since died, trial hears

A man from Cootehill, County Cavan, has died by suicide since his arrest on the morning of a tiger kidnapping, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard....

Mayo · November 02, 2018

Lawyers for jailed father will seek to adduce new evidence that victim "recanted" rape accusation

A man convicted in February of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault against his daughter has opened an appeal against his conviction in the Court of...

Cavan · November 01, 2018

Detective who fired on suspect feared for his life, tiger kidnap trial hears

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a garda detective testified on the fifteenth day of trial that he discharged two shots at a suspect during an armed chase...

Monaghan · November 01, 2018

Jail for attack on garda with glass bottle

A Dublin man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment following his assault on a garda with a glass bottle. Christopher Reilly (28) pleaded...

Monaghan · November 01, 2018

Father of three stabbed man in neck during prearranged fight

A 26-year-old man from Walkinstown, Dublin has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for stabbing another man in the neck during a prearranged fight....

Cavan · October 30, 2018

Technical evidence in tiger kidnap trial

The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with technical evidence relating to...

Roscommon · October 30, 2018

High Court orders extradition of company director wanted over £5m tax fraud

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Roscommon man wanted in the United Kingdom for involvement in a £5 million tax fraud. Thomas Joseph O'Connor,...

Roscommon · October 30, 2018

Farmer's latest appeal in long-running dispute is dismissed

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Roscommon farmer against injunctions preventing him from placing animals on lands subject to sale...

Cavan · October 26, 2018

Legal argument continues in tiger kidnapping trial

The trial of a man charged in connection with a tiger kidnapping in 2014 has continued with legal argument held in the jury's absence at Dublin Circuit...

Monaghan · October 26, 2018

Serial thief "unwittingly" driven to crime scene by taxi driver

A man has entered guilty pleas to a series of shop robberies at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, having been driven to multiple crime scenes by a taxi driver...

Leitrim · October 26, 2018

Sentence for having explosives and handgun is upheld

A 24-year-old man from County Tipperary has had his sentence upheld after appealing a conviction relating to the possession of explosives and a firearm. The...

Monaghan · October 25, 2018

Man assaulted garda with glass bottle, causing permanent damage

A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a garda with a glass bottle at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Christopher Reilly, aged 28, of Cabra, Dublin, assaulted...

Donegal · October 25, 2018

Business owner spared jail for using fake documents to get mortgage

A Dublin business owner has been ordered to complete 240 hours of community service for using fraudulent documents to secure a €71,000 mortgage. Kevin Molloy,...

French Park · October 24, 2018

Three buses observed cutting fatal crash corner, expert tells trial

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a forensic collision investigator gave evidence that at least three Dublin Bus vehicles were observed cutting the corner at...

French Park · October 24, 2018

Dublin bus driver guilty of careless driving causing death of cyclist

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has found Osborn Irabor, a Dublin Bus driver aged 58 from Tyrrelstown, Dublin, guilty of careless driving causing the...

Ballymote · October 24, 2018

Provisional liquidator appointed to Vodka firm

The High Court has appointed a provisional liquidator to Taiga Shtof Ltd, a company based at Laburnum House, Fairgreen Road, Ballymote, County Sligo, which...

French Park · October 23, 2018

Dublin bus driver goes on trial accused of causing death of cyclist

Osborn Irabor, a Dublin Bus driver aged 58 from Tyrrelstown, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to careless driving causing the death of cyclist Mary White at...

Arva · October 22, 2018

Suspended sentence for farm labourer (86) who raped and abused children over 60 years ago

An 86-year-old man from Arva, County Cavan, has received an eight-year suspended sentence at the Central Criminal Court for the sexual abuse of two siblings...

Edgeworthstown · October 22, 2018 Also covered in Ballymahon

Serial burglar replied "good" when told of garda call

A man from Edgeworthstown in Longford has received a partially suspended sentence after pleading guilty to trespassing with intent to commit an offence at a...

Kiltimagh · October 22, 2018 Also covered in Castlebar, Knock

Disqualified driver nearly collided with walkers during chase

A man from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, has failed in his appeal against a five-year prison sentence imposed for dangerous driving. Martin Maughan (32) was...

Cavan · October 22, 2018

Tiger kidnapping trial continues in legal argument

The trial of Paschal Kelly (52), from Cootehill, County Cavan, has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with legal argument conducted in the jury's...

Donegal · October 22, 2018

Revenue in bid to wind up Limerick FC

The High Court has adjourned an application by the Revenue Commissioners to wind up Limerick FC, a League of Ireland Premier Division club. The Collector...

Cavan · October 16, 2018

Legal argument in tiger kidnapping trial

Paschal Kelly, aged 52, from Cootehill, County Cavan, stands trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for charges arising from an alleged tiger kidnapping in...

Cavan · October 15, 2018

Detective tells tiger kidnap trial of seeing man in ski mask

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a detective gave evidence in the trial of a man accused of tiger kidnapping. Detective Garda Eamon Keane described observing...

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