A man who held a hammer in his hand when he trapped a former colleague in his car, rubbed chilli powder on her face and told her to "say your last prayer", has been found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity.
A Midlands mother was stopped coming through Dublin Airport with €30,000 worth of cannabis resin after enjoying a birthday party in Lanzarote, it has been alleged.
A student allegedly captured on CCTV performing late night lewd acts over three dates outside a woman's workplace in Dublin has been sent forward for trial.
A 39-year-old man has been jailed for a total of 12 months when he appeared via video link and pleaded guilty to charges resulting from separate incidents throughout Co. Louth.
A man who sexually abused his three-year-old cousin has been jailed for four years.
A graffiti artist who looked like "butter wouldn't melt in his mouth" but caused more than €60,000 worth of damage to trains has been spared jail.
The father of the 12-year old boy allegedly assaulted with a stick by former All-Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler Niall Gilligan phoned him from an A&E to say “you just viciously attacked my son”, a court has heard.
An alleged rioter was remanded into custody today after he was identified throwing missiles at police and breaking into a car which was then set on fire.
A woman has told Dundalk Court that her 28-year-old son needed to go to jail.
A woman had her personal injuries claim against fast-food restaurant Supermac’s dismissed after a judge found she was “wholly distracted” by her phone when she claimed she tripped over a vacuum cleaner.
A young man who was allegedly assaulted by an on-duty garda admitted that he had resisted arrest in the past but didn’t resist on this occasion.
A phone technician caught with over €2,000 of cocaine and cannabis planned to take the drugs to induce a heart attack, a court has heard.
A concert-goer punched another man in the face after he made “incredibly offensive” and derogatory remarks about his girlfriend, a court heard.
Gangster Brian Rattigan’s ex-girlfriend Natasha McEnroe drunkenly drove her high-powered Audi on Dublin’s M50, and then tried to flee by running across lanes of the motorway, a court has heard.
A man was suffering from a delusional disorder when he is alleged to have falsely imprisoned a former work colleague in his car - where the door handles had been sealed with tape - thrown hot chilli in her eyes and tried to murder her after …
Barristers have argued that a murderer who shot dead a man in front of his four-month-old son did not receive a fair trial, as the trial judge effectively “closed down the defence case” in his charge to the jury.
A teenager told a court today all he could hear was the sound of wood smacking off his then 12 year old friend after he saw former All-Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler, Niall Gilligan go to hit him.
A man who was described as having a very high IQ but who is a 'Jekyll and Hyde' character after drinking alcohol has appeared in court after going on a rampage in Co Donegal.
A man who raped a woman while she was sleeping and continued to rape her after she managed to escape the first attack, has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court.
A circuit court judge has said a man on temporary release from prison who attempted to reverse into a garda van three times behaved like ‘an utter and complete menace’.
A Sligo B&B owner who raped a guest nearly 40 years his junior and claimed it was consensual has appealed his conviction, claiming the trial judge should have addressed comments made in the prosecution’s closing speech which invited the jury …
The defence team for a Romanian man accused of “looting” a house which had been left vacant over recent rioting in Ballymena, “are having considerable difficulties” finding him a bail address, a court heard today.
The case against a Filipino accused of facilitating the rape of a teenage schoolgirl and sexually assaulting her friend, is to be expedited because of the age of the complainant, a defence barrister confirmed today.
A man has pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning a woman at a flat in Co Donegal.
A patient in Sligo University Hospital who punched a nurse, knocking her unconscious had his case put back for sentence at Sligo District Court.
A man pleaded guilty before a court today to dangerous driving causing the death of his niece and to producing a machete on the same day.
Five days into his trial for the unlawful killing of 73-year-old Tom Niland, who was beaten in his home and left to die by three men, John Irving this morning changed his plea to guilty.
An Irishwoman in her 30s who was allegedly raped in Amsterdam says she remembers nothing of the incident, a public prosecutor told a pre-trial hearing for the case.
A garda has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of assaulting a teenager in Temple Bar in 2021.
A shoplifter living with multiple sclerosis was on a “raft” of medication and had no memory of taking goods from a supermarket and pharmacy, a court heard.
An administration worker punched his former housemate following a row over dust from a vacuum cleaner getting on to newly washed clothes, a court has heard.
A former gangland criminal serving an 18-year jail term for his part in a tiger kidnapping has been cleared of having a phone in prison.
A woman has pleaded guilty to producing a screwdriver and robbery of a house in Co Donegal.
A Co Donegal man has appeared in court charged with careless driving causing serious bodily harm to another person.
A man and woman have pleaded guilty to theft in relation to an alleged accommodation fraud in south Dublin.
A man in his 20s has been arrested in Carrigaline, Co Cork, after more than €17,000 worth of drugs and a further €6,000 in cash was discovered in his home by gardaí.
This is the domestic thug and bully who has narrowly escaped going to jail for what a judge said was “truly appalling behaviour” to his partner.
A Larne woman who admitted spitting in the face of a charity shop manager in a “quite disgusting” incident, has been ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.
A community development worker has pleaded guilty to having over €60,000 in crime proceeds in Co Westmeath last year.
A Donegal man has lost an appeal against his conviction for raping and sexually assaulting his daughter when she was a child, with the court finding that evidence of the victim's disclosure of the abuse to her aunt was admissible at trial.
The Department of Agriculture moved to remove almost all cattle and sheep from a Co Clare farm as it had a mortality rate of two to three bovines dying per week due to a farmer’s neglect, a court has heard.
A GRAFFITI artist who caused more than €60,000 worth of damage to railway carriages and equipment pepper-sprayed a train driver in the face when he confronted him.
A newly-recruited farm labourer stole a chequebook from his employer and attempted to lodge three bogus cheques totalling more than €20,000 just 10 days after moving into a family-run farm in the midlands, a court has heard.
An inmate at a Dublin prison has admitted arson after “contraband” was thrown over the wall and set fire to the security netting.
A Ballymena schoolgirl was walking along a street in the town when she was allegedly dragged into a garage, then raped and sexually assaulted by three males, a court heard today.
A man described as the manager of the “entire cell of a drug distribution network in the Dublin area” has been jailed for 15 years after he was caught with almost nine million worth of assorted drugs, over €1 million in cash and a stolen garda …
A Longford hairdresser labelled by a judge as “sort of guilty” of money-laundering and possession of a significant quantity of jewellery has received community service and a suspended prison sentence following her appearance at Longford Circuit …
A jury was told today that former All-Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler, Niall Gilligan “whacked” a 12 year old boy on the leg with a stick during an an alleged assault in October 2023.
A woman, who used her fingernails to attack her sister-in-law at a post office in Dublin, after previously punching, kicking and pulling the hair of a mother on a school run, has avoided jail.
