Criminal Courts

Brendan Doolin (41) of Leighlin Road, Crumlin was sentenced to three years, which was suspended for three years on strict conditions

Brendan Doolin (41) accused of using false online identities to continue to harass journalists, with gardaí discovering concealed phone beneath floorboards

Three-time All-Ireland winning hurler is appealing ‘severity’ of two-week jail sentence for perjury after telling 'blatant lie'

Fiona O’Leary, who describes herself as a campaigner against pseudoscience, says she uses social media for her activism

Michael Carroll, who has 58 previous convictions, was under pressure to pay off a drug debt when he tried to kill John Hutch in Dublin

Former basketball coach pleaded guilty to 13 sample counts related to assault of five boys in Waterford between 1979 and 1990

Jack MacGowan describes impact of physical attack on mother Marie (86) by Alex Bailey in Dublin but hopes some good can come from it

Gardaí are unaware if gangland figure is moving permanently or travelling to manage substantial assets in Costa del Sol

John Reeves of Sandyford hid suitcase of drugs in the attic, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court told

Lawrence (42) and her co-accused, South African Neville van der Westhuizen, fled Ireland in 2014 following double murder of Eoin O’Connor (32) and Anthony Keegan (33)

Aidan Byrne (75) conned social welfare system for years using identity of brother who died in drowning accident in England in 1972

Staff in Co Louth business threatened during robbery on Tuesday evening

Barrister who organised protests over failure to reverse fee cuts says he earned more as a taxi driver

Retired Limerick bus driver (82) jailed for two years after preying on young man

Three sexually explicit images of a child were found on phone of Ronan Keogan (51) of Terenure

Ioan Lingurar (36), who raped two women three years apart after luring them into car by pretending to be taxi, will serve 17-and-a-half sentence

Paul O’Brien (38) avoids custodial sentence for what judge described as a ‘sneaky type of offence - hard to detect’

Seamus Walsh (43) was due to attend court on Tuesday for sentencing but told his solicitor he was going to his aunt’s funeral instead

John Hussey (57) named after victim waived right to anonymity over ‘appalling breach of trust’ in 2003

Court hears a decision had been made that evidential test in case has not been met, resulting in decision to discontinue prosecution

The Waterford man (72) denies 266 counts of indecent and sexual assault against five men, now in their 40s and 50s

Sentencing hearing of former directors and executives told of suffering and ‘devastation’ of victims who lost their pensions

Darren Murphy, now 52, claims process used by gardaí to identify him on CCTV was ‘flawed’

Julie Flood, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed father on his 94th birthday believing he was an ‘impostor’ sent to harm her

Boy, now 15, kicked woman in face before sexually assaulting her, injuring her so badly her phone’s facial recognition app didn’t recognise her

24-year-old man allegedly assaulted in hostel on Harrington Street died later from his injuries

Accused (72) denies allegations he indecently and sexually assaulted five boys in various locations between 1978 and 1993

Julie Flood (51) was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed God had told her that her father was an ‘impostor’

Man (40s), who can’t be named for legal reasons, will stand trial in October charged with engaging in sex acts with a child

Cork GAA broadcaster died after alleged hit and run in Innishannon, Co Cork last December

Motorbike mechanic to serve a minimum of 40 years for killing of Gda Colm Horkan

Hutch denies murder of David Byrne at Regency Hotel in Dublin in 2016

Because congregation has failed to appoint nominee, legal papers in historic abuse cases are sent to all remaining brothers from the time, causing huge stress

Two boys, 15 and 16, charged with creating risk of death or serious harm by allegedly ramming stolen cars into Garda vehicle in Ballyfermot

No obvious motive behind why Ionut Cosmin Nicholescu (30) killed and dismembered Frankie Dunne (64) in 2019

Man arrested for murder of his wife and two children at their home in south Dublin disguised himself in women’s clothing to take a bus to their house on the day they were last seen alive, inquest hears

Judge rules that more than 100 surviving defendants should be served with papers in absence of nominee for the order

Christopher O’Sullivan pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Timmy Hourihane at a ‘tented village’ in Cork city

Ex-An Bord Pleanála deputy chairman stood back from his duties in May following allegations

Bohdan Bezverkhyi (33) already facing four charges relating to alleged hit and run