Man who admitted abusing boy gets suspended sentence due to delay bringing prosecution

Defendant has previous convictions for sexually assaulting another child

Damage to eye in assault destroyed man’s dream of playing football for Dublin

Aaron Duffy was 19 when glass was smashed into his face at Wrights Cafe Bar in Swords

Dublin man caught with child porn by undercover FBI agent is jailed

FBI agent contacted Yahoo which determined email address was located in Ireland

Man sent photos of child abuse to FBI agent online, court hears

Dermot Whelan (67) from Tallaght admitted possessing hundreds of images on computers

Man jailed for sexual assaults on child (4) his partner was babysitting

Case saw one of youngest complainants ever giving evidence and being cross-examined

Jury fail to reach verdict on number of charges against creche worker

Childcare worker remanded on bail after court told jury unable to agree on verdicts on 18 counts of alleged sexual assault

Jury urged to stick with trial despite coronavirus

Trial of childcare worker (29) accused of sexually assaulting four girls in creche is set to conclude next week

Garda did not tell two girls alleging assault to tell truth, court hears

Interviewer says she has no excuse for oversight in case where childcare worker accused

Man who crashed stolen bicycle into English tourist jailed for eight years

Jeffrey Crowley has 92 previous convictions many involving ‘gratuitous violence’

Thief who struck elderly woman with a stolen car is jailed

Liam Sheridan (40) pleaded guilty to endangerment at Mountjoy Street in 2016

Parents jailed over female genital mutilation of daughter

First conviction for ‘heinous and barbaric’ practice recorded in history of the State

Trial hears accused woman was victim of FGM in Somalia

Couple face charges of performing procedure on one-year-old girl in Dublin three years ago

Suspended sentence for Leaving Cert student who beat fellow pupil unconscious

Injured boy had his nose broken in assault and was left with breathing difficulties

Man who was ‘off his head on crack’ for 13 robberies is sentenced

Dublin man David Dunne given nine years for thefts committed over three months

Suspended sentence for man who had baby rape video on phone

Frank Kamara claimed he sent supervisor video to warn him over child exploitation

Man kicked former partner in face during attack

Man told woman that “tonight was her execution” and asked if she would like to be shot

Man goes on trial over causing ‘devastating damage’ with gas explosion

Court told Terence Maguire cut inlet pipe in alleged attempted suicide but later lit cigarette

Woman pulled from vehicle by drug addict during car-jacking, court told

Victim was ‘amazed’ by people who came to assist her at time of Clontarf attack

Massage parlour owner thought ‘manual relief’ was legal, court told

Nan Wu pleads guilty to controlling and directing the actions of prostitution for gain

Garda found with child porn to be sentenced in January

Joseph O’Connor (58) claimed man who came to his home for sex ‘corrupted’ laptop

Dublin garda (58) convicted of having child porn on seized laptop

Joseph O’Connor told gardaí that man who came to his home for sex corrupted computer

‘Somebody else’ downloaded child porn onto laptop, accused claims

Joseph O’Connor, a garda, denies five counts of possessing child pornography at his home

Child pornography films and images found on garda’s laptop, trial told

The 58-year-old man pleaded not guilty in court to possession of child pornography at his home

One year in jail for fracturing man’s skull with golf club

Dean Sutcliffe hit man from behind ‘with such force that the head of the club came off’

Sex offender breached court order by using public transport

Anthony Goodman gets backdated sentence of 2½ years with eight months suspended

Trial over family kidnap and €600,000 robbery collapses

Jury discharged amid concerns some jurors ‘were getting information from outside trial’

Man’s fingerprint matched to pizza box, court hears

Forensics expert gives evidence in trial over alleged tiger kidnapping in Co Louth

Armed raiders threatened to ‘blow heads off’ woman and baby

Jonathan Gill (35) on trial for his role in false imprisonment of An Post worker and family

Woman abused by husband granted separation

Judge says father, who was jailed for violence, is unfit to share custody of young son

Woman underwent breast reduction due to abuse, court hears

Woman says she felt her granduncle ‘owned my boobs’ after he assaulted her as a child

‘Singing priest’ who raped boy with crucifix jailed

Anthony Walsh (62) committed offences between 1980 and 1982 in parochial house and Phoenix Park

Garda not guilty of harassing colleague by reason of insanity

Court told Donal Maguire (40) from Bundoran has a form of early onset dementia

Garda sent sergeant emails and Facebook request despite many warnings

Garda Donal Maguire has pleaded not guilty to harassing woman by reason of insanity

Politician ‘compared to Isis’ seeks right to be forgotten

Mark Savage tells judge he was branded a homophobe due to stance he took in election

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