Legal world divided on legacy of retiring High Court president
Mary Irvine angered barristers with guidelines slashing minor personal injury awards
Doorman who left pub owner to die has jail term reduced by one year on appeal
Defendant was sentenced to nine years after he was convicted of manslaughter in 2019
Man who threatened to kill former colleagues of Garda Colm Horgan has jail term cut
Enda Gavigan made threats to kill after he was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage
Minister for Eucharist fails in bid to have jail term for sexually abusing young girl reduced
The man built a garden shed which his victim believed was for the purpose of committing sex assaults
Man has jail term increased for role in violence at party where Cameron Blair stabbed
Scott O’Connor armed himself with knife and encouraged ‘a situation of violence to develop’, judge said
Man who twice raped schoolgirl at his sister’s 18th birthday party loses jail term appeal
Richard O’Mara (33) convicted and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment
Woman sobs in court as she’s told she is being jailed for false sex assault allegation
Judges in the Court of Appeal imposed a one-year custodial term
Court upholds sentence of global crime gang’s ‘sacrificial lamb’
DPP argued three-and-a-half-year jail term for money laundering was unduly lenient
First people in Ireland convicted of FGM face retrial after convictions quashed
Court rules trial was ‘unfair’ because of problems with translation of their testimony
Man found civilly liable for Omagh bombing to be extradited to Lithuania
Liam Campbell fails in bid to prevent extradition on suspicion of arms smuggling
Two men jailed for life for murder of Co Offaly man have convictions quashed
Thomas ‘Toddy’ Dooley was beaten to death with a baseball bat in his home in 2014
Gardaí should disclose material to DPP in secret IRA cases, court hears
DPP should see files on which ‘belief evidence’ is based, argues Rights Commission
Man who murdered 90-year-old tells court there’s no proof he caused death
Man’s lawyer tells court pathology evidence shows man died due to hip fracture
Man needing treatment at Central Mental Hospital to remain in prison, court rules
Court of Appeal told man is being held at Cloverhill Prison due to lack of hospital beds
Burglar who put homeowners through ‘terrifying ordeal’ has sentence increased
Michael Cawley was 16 when he tried to force door of Stillorgan home open as owner held it
Father and son appeal sentences for hammer assault over €50 debt
Two men had been sentenced to 10 and seven years
Storm Emma looter avoids jail after ‘progressing very well’
Court gives 39-year-old suspended sentence and orders him to stay ‘on straight and narrow’
Appeal court jails garda for dangerous driving causing death of mother of three
Three-judge court accepts argument by DPP that original suspended sentence was too lenient
Man jailed for ‘extreme domestic violence’ given last chance to appeal
Accountant’s solicitor fails to attend case over conviction for kicking and stabbing partner
Judge ‘shocked’ by six-day cross-examination of boy
Barrister representing man appealing conviction for raping son criticised in court
Man found guilty of sexually assaulting girl (10) has conviction overturned
Barrister argued that trial judge presented ‘imbalanced view of evidence’ in his charge
Man’s sex assault conviction quashed as trial juror was related to victim in separate case
Court of Appeal orders a retrial amid what judge describes as a ‘very unusual’ situation
Octogenarian paedophile appeals conviction for abusing son
Clare man (86) who used son as ‘sexual plaything’ is serving four year sentence
Court upholds convictions over €2m cash-in-transit robbery
Three men appealed convictions for kidnapping family as part of robbery in 2018
Court of Appeal increases sentences for high-end assault cases
Sentences for three people jailed for separate assaults in Waterford were ‘unduly lenient’
Court of Appeal doubles sentences for cannabis ‘delivery men’
Polish pair sentenced to six years in jail over possession of €1.3m in drugs in Carlow
Farmer who killed neighbour with teleporter sees jail term increased from five to nine years
DPP had appealed leniency of Michael Ferris’ sentence for manslaughter of Anthony O’Mahony
Man jailed for ‘life-changing’ one-punch assault has sentence cut in half
Mark O’Sullivan’s attack left victim with ‘catastrophic’ injuries, judge says
Retired doctor loses appeal against sentence for abusing boys
86-year-old man cannot be identified by order of the Court of Appeal
‘Our legal system gave my rapist a free rape,’ survivor tells lawyers
Leona O’Callaghan urges changes to cross-examination in cases of sexual violence
Real IRA leader who plotted royal visit attack dies in prison
Seamus McGrane (64) planned to carry out explosion during Prince Charles’s 2015 trip
Man jailed for raping woman at gaming convention has sentence upheld
Keith Hearne (30) claimed judge did not take his psychiatric illnesses into account
Ex-soldier refused extra time to appeal abuse sentence
Timothy O’Sullivan (67) jailed for 11 years for grooming and raping two boys in 1990s
Dublin man jailed for five years for IRA membership
FBI agent uncovered Dublin-based plot to buy a grenade, handgun and Semtex online
Referendum commission to oversee blasphemy poll announced
Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy to act as chairwoman ahead of October vote
Undercover FBI agent tipped off gardaí about Semtex plot
Agent was contacted via darknet by a person looking for explosives, court told
Law to replace Eighth Amendment not subject of vote, says commission
Referendum Commission urges everyone to vote as it launches information campaign
Dublin advertising agency BBDO gets referendum voter account
‘Your vote means everything,’ Referendum Commission tells public
Referendum Commission has no power over social media
Group’s job is to offer a neutral explanation of the proposal on the Eighth Amendment
Abortion referendum will see no policing of social media
Watchdogs will not supervise social media campaigning despite concerns on both sides
Cabinet agrees to table legislation to hold an abortion referendum
Harris says it will be difficult to meet May deadline but Government will do all it can
Man of ‘some standing’ jailed for repeatedly raping child
Judge says Noel Kelleher engaged in a breach of trust in attacks on child of ‘tender years’
On-the-run burglar jailed for sexual assault had 168 previous convictions
Victim says memory of 2015 attack will stay with her ‘every minute of every day’
Special Criminal Court trial delayed by bad weather
Three people accused of IRA-related offences trapped in Belfast by bad weather
Man who raped daughter as she recovered from burns is jailed
Man (55) is imprisoned for 13 years for abusing his daughter and her cousin
Dissident republican who planned royal visit attack jailed for 11.5 years
Seamus McGrane is only second person convicted of directing terrorism in State
IRA man jailed for buying car used in NI prison officer murder
David Black (52) shot dead while driving to work at Maghaberry prison
Man who bought car used in murder of prison officer to be sentenced
Police established that Vincent Banks bought Toyota Camry car used from a man in Dublin
Freddie Thompson fails in bid to have murder charge dropped
Dubliner (36) charged with killing David Douglas (55) on Bridgefoot Street in July 2016
Woman (39) to go on trial over Gareth Hutch murder
Regina Keogh faces hearing in non-jury Special Criminal Court over the 2016 killing
Gsoc must go to High Court for court transcripts on garda killer
Adrian Crevan Mackin shot dead Anthony Golden in Omeath in 2015 before taking his life
HSE seeks to induce mother with mental age of less than eight
Court hears medics have concerns for infant’s health due to woman’s mental capacity
Ex-Sinn Fein councillor told waterboarding victim ‘he was in IRA’
Alexander Hurley claims in court Jonathan Dowdall told him his family would be killed
New submissions today in torture case involving ex-councillor
Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall may be sentenced today if request fails
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