2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (632+ words) A woman who told a court her husband chased her through their home with a machete “screaming that he would kill me” has secured an interim barring order against him. She also told Dublin District Family Court that the man…...

16+ hour, 29+ min ago   (534+ words) Dozens of criminal legal aid cases were adjourned at a midlands district court on Thursday due to the withdrawal of services by criminal solicitors involved in the legal aid payment dispute. At Mullingar District Court, Judge Patricia Cronin adjourned the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (462+ words) A doctor who was jailed for sexual assault in Britain in August was the subject of a complaint alleging sexual harassment of a younger colleague in Dublin 20 years ago. Muhammad Iqbal (64), of Julianstown, Co Meath, was jailed last month for…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (373+ words) Two men accused of raping an 18-year-old woman in a car parked at Galway’s Ceannt Railway Station after she became lost in the city were refused bail in the High Court on Thursday. The Jordanian men, aged 27 and 25, who cannot…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (541+ words) Of 12 teenagers before Dublin Children’s Court on Wednesday, facing charges including for theft, assault, stealing cars, possession of drugs, and carrying weapons, just one had a solicitor due to the ongoing strike over legal aid reforms. Several, aged between 16 and…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (603+ words) The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has been ordered to pay €33,000 to an employee who argued she should not have had to organise in-person school visits during the Covid-19 pandemic as they were contrary to safety regulations at the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (319+ words) Two further arrests have been made by gardaí investigating an incident of violent disorder in Leopardstown, south Dublin, after which a man died from what were described as “catastrophic injuries”. It brings to six the total number of arrests made…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (407+ words) Peter Mulcaire, the two-year-old boy who died after a hit-and-run incident in Co Limerick, was his family’s “sunshine” and “left an impression on everyone he met”, his funeral Mass has heard. The toddler, who is survived by his parents Kerrie…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (333+ words) An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of James O’Neill, whose body was found in the Phoenix Park, Dublin in November 2023, but whose family was not informed of his death until December 2024, has been adjourned for six months. The…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (414+ words) The Taoiseach has dismissed the Law Society’s call for an independent mediator into a dispute with the Minister for Justice. Most criminal defence solicitors are continuing to withdraw services over the changed system, which saw a single flat fee of…...