A man who has been jailed after joining in a mob attack on gardai outside a funeral is a well-known thug who infamously escaped from a prison van after officers had stopped at a chipper.
A man convicted of raping a pensioner has been warned to stay away from an area of west Belfast after he was recently spotted loitering in the vicinity of a care home for the elderly.
A man who repeatedly sexually abused a young girl in his home has been jailed for six years.
A spurned mistress who narrowly escaped going to jail for blackmailing her illicit lover had another lucky escape last week after she was convicted of “torturing” her estranged husband.
A carpenter has been sent forward for trial charged with an alleged serious assault outside a pub in Mullingar earlier this year that left another man fighting for his life in hospital.
Gardaí seized €170,000 worth of cannabis and arrested a man in south Dublin yesterday.
A learner driver has been stopped in Laois driving around with cocaine in his system and weed smoke wafting out the windows.
This is the woman who was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this week after more than 80,000 untaxed cigarettes were found in her home.
A 27-year-old man told his mother “I am going to kill Benson” before repeatedly stabbing her “beloved” 10-year-old Pug dog with a knife, Ennis Circuit Court has heard.
A pensioner has been released on bail and ordered to sign the sex offenders register after a so-called ‘paedophile hunter’ sting.
A man who lead armed gardaí on a 20-minute high speed pursuit has failed in his bid to have his licence returned after a court heard he was already serving a 40-year driving ban at the time of the offence.
A man is to stand trial accused of committing violent disorder in a midlands town last year while armed with a wooden pole.
A grandfather who stole hundreds of euro worth of jewellery and clothes from city centre shops in Dublin was a “nuisance” whose “full-time occupation” was stealing, a judge said.
Two children stepped in to save their mother as their father attacked her with a knife while she was holding their three-month-old baby, it is alleged.
A Dublin man jailed for money laundering and drug dealing charges was trying to enquire about his ill mother when he was caught using a contraband mobile phone in his cell.
A FATHER-of-five had a submachine gun concealed in a “sophisticated hidden compartment” in his car when gardaí carried out a search at his Dublin home, it is alleged.
A judge has granted a request by a convicted cocaine delivery man and “decent family man” to defer his imprisonment to allow him attend his child’s First Holy Communion tomorrow.
A Kilkenny man has been convicted of sexually abusing eight boys over 30 years ago.
A man who installed several cameras in his friend’s apartment and secretly recorded her over seven months has been sentenced to four years in prison.
A law graduate and religious youth leader has been given a two-year jail-term for the defilement and sexual exploitation of a 16-year-old girl in Dublin four years ago.
A MAN charged with public order offences after gardai responded to reports of an incident last week at Grand Canal Square in Dublin refused to take up bail.
Gardaí have arrested two men after a drugs and cash seizure in Dublin.
THREE gardaí who were arrested in an anti-corruption probe have been sent for trial charged with burglary and perverting the course of justice.
A man in his 30s will appear in court today after gardaí uncovered a Czechoslovakian-made machine gun in Dublin.
A DUBLIN man who allegedly forged Covid-19 test results so he and his friends could travel around Europe to festivals, concerts, and sports events during the lockdown has been sent forward for trial.
Twisted killer Jonathan Creswell left a ‘mini-autobiography’ of a last letter — blaming all the women in his life for his downfall.
Two men involved in ‘violent exchanges’ on the roof of a building at the rear of St Finian’s Park in Drogheda, have received suspended sentences.
A cyclist followed a woman very closely on his bike, telling her “you don’t own the f**king road”, and causing her to fall over, a court has heard.
A mother of three who headbutted her teenage son when he tried to let her ex-partner into their house was battling a chronic addiction to alcohol at the time, a court has heard.
A shoplifter who beat a drug addiction and stayed clean for over a decade is hopeful that she can beat it again, a court has heard.
A violent thug serving a seven-year sentence for a pub assault carried out renovations worth €400,000 on his house including his den known as Blondie’s Boom Boom Bar.
A man who secretly filmed his lodger while she was showering and then harassed her for months has been given a suspended sentence of 16 months.
Convicted murderer Robert ‘Roo’ Redmond, who cold-bloodedly conspired to gun down a drug dealer who owed him €70,000 after telling the victim "very soon, bang bang", will now serve sentences totalling 19 years in tandem with his life imprisonment …
A man accused of attempted murder has been further charged at the Special Criminal Court with facilitating a criminal gang in murder and drug dealing.
A Kerry businessman charged over Ireland’s biggest ever crystal meth haul has lost his appeal against a decision to refuse him bail.
A woman who received tens of thousands in compensation after making false personal injury claims over a decade ago has been jailed.
A Dublin student died from injuries sustained after he got into difficulty in rough sea conditions at a popular bathing area in south Dublin three years ago, an inquest has heard.
A Dublin man described as “not a criminal mastermind” has been jailed for four and a half years, after gardaí found cocaine worth over half a million euro in a van outside his girlfriend's house.
A lawyer for a woman suing Conor McGregor over personal injuries allegedly sustained in an assault has accused the mixed martial arts star of playing “ducks and drakes” with the High Court.
The sentencing of a woman who received over €35,000 in compensation for her and her son following a staged car crash has been adjourned after the prosecution said it needed to make inquiries about her “true financial situation”.
DRUG dealer David Waldron’s massive Wexford mansion and a three-bed house in Leixlip have been making €6,450 a month in rent while being targeted by the Criminal Assets Bureau.
A SHOPPER who walked around a supermarket with a “very realistic” replica submachine gun in his hand could have caused “havoc and panic” in Dublin city centre at Christmas time, a court heard.
An IT worker who has been jailed for three separate offences of possessing child sexual abuse material told gardaí that he didn't know how the material ended up on his digital devices.
A court has heard how a teenager was allegedly attacked with a knife and almost run over during a violent row on the forecourt of a filling station in Longford.
Five gardaí were forced to restrain a woman inside a garda station after she assaulted two officers, accusing a female garda of being a “w***” and “riding all the boys” before telling officers: “I will kill you and your family and I know where you …
A Dublin man accused of burgling a business premises twice in two days has been further remanded on bail for DPP’s directions on the charges.
A teenager who repeatedly raped his “defenceless” younger cousin in their mutual grandparents' house, fracturing extended family relationships, has received 18 months detention.
A hospital has apologised over failings in care for a 72-year-old woman who died 11 days after she was admitted suffering from shortness of breath and weakness.
A convicted sex offender who believed he was meeting an 11-year-old girl but instead found an adult “decoy” livestreaming to Facebook has been jailed.