William Kavanagh, 58, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of three rapes in a retrial at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick, with his victim stating that 'death would have been easier'.

A jury in a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard that a 59-year-old Mayo man died from 27 stab wounds in circumstances described as 'almost indescribable savagery'.

A member of An Garda Síochána (Irish police) charged with rape and child cruelty in County Donegal is set to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court.

An Irish man who beat his grandfather to death with a granite stone and cement block has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity by a Central Criminal Court jury.

A scaffolder has been found guilty of murder by a Central Criminal Court jury for fatally beating a 'drunken bowsie' who made lewd comments to his mother. The man inflicted a 'volley of violence' in response to the insult.

A man accused of murdering Daena Walsh told gardaí he did not kill his 'soul mate,' while Garda Technical Bureau members found knives in bags and bloodstained clothing items in a Co Cork apartment during the Central Criminal Court trial.

A Garda officer charged with rape and child cruelty, with alleged offenses occurring at an address in Co Donegal, will be tried at the Central Criminal Court.