Costel Raducan (37) of High Street, Balbriggan was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury last month of burglary, rape and attempted anal rape at a location in Co Dublin on May 3rd, 2025.

When the Tipperary farmer, PJ O’Connor’s condition deteriorated and he needed to be transferred to another hospital for treatment, he had to wait four hours for an ambulance.

It prohibits businesses from placing plastic bags on footpaths, instead asking them to bring rubbish to waste compactors, or have it collected by a waste management company.

A week ago, the trespassers on the Ardee House, Chamber Street, were given three days to leave by Judge Brian Cregan.

The 31-year-old Dublin man punched, kicked and bit the woman during the 20-minute assault, before leaving her on the floor in agony while he went to sleep.

Mother of three, Kelly Swaine, also known as Mulvey, from the Pearse House area in Dublin 2, but lately of no fixed abode, was refused bail.

Simon Harris said the practice is not something the Government or HSE would condone.

On Thursday, Judge Paul McDermott said the injured party in this case had suffered an offence of the “most serious kind”, which was committed by this defendant.

Some of the caravan dwellers were hostile when security company personnel, accompanied by gardaí and military police, served papers on them notifying them of injunction proceedings brought against them by the Minister for Defence, who owns the land, the court also heard.

Opening the pub at the supermarket’s Dundonald store enables Lidl to sell off-sales alcohol in compliance with Northern Ireland’s licensing laws.

In a judgment published this week, High Court president Judge David Barniville made orders against Ronan O’Brien, after a disciplinary tribunal made findings of misconduct against the solicitor.

A Co Laois man in his early 20s was left fighting for his life in hospital from what was described as a sustained attack.

A firefighter told the court ‘I still remember them to this day’ about the injured girl’s pink shoes.

Violence flared in several areas in Northern Ireland last week after a graphic video clip emerged of a man being stabbed in north Belfast last Monday.

This is an increase of 11 per cent on the same period last year.

The Scale of Solar report indicates that Ireland had a total connected solar capacity which reached 2.7 GW by the end of May 2026, an increase of almost 300 per cent since 2023.

Baby Pádraig O’Brien O’Donnell from Newcastlewest, Limerick, the High Court heard died four hours after his birth at University Maternity Hospital, Limerick on June 18th, 2022.

Dublin City Council bought the 20-bedroom Avondale House on Gardiner Street late last year, saying it was the most cost-effective solution for emergency housing.

Systems and structures in place were ‘wholly inadequate’ to manage the scale of abuse at the Co Antrim facility, the inquiry found.

In a case documented by medics at the Emergency Department (ED) at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), the young woman presented at the ED with a two-day history of worsening right groin pain, progressive leg swelling and new-onset shortness of breath.