During the trial of Ashling Murphy, the beautiful young teacher, from Tullamore, Co Offaly viciously stabbed to death while ...

A Louth TD is demanding a Government crackdown on serious crime and for life sentences to actually mean life. Paula Butterly of Fine Gael wants changes in the law so judges can have the power to ...

The Supreme Court also ruled that the Central Criminal Court has no power to review sentences on child offenders after a ...

A drunk found to have a knife concealed in his jacket appeared before Judge James McCourt in Wexford Circuit Court.

The Supreme Court has ruled that life sentences for child killers should only be imposed in exceptional circumstances and the Central Criminal Court has no power to review, after a period of time ...

The judgment arises from an appeal taken by the young man convicted of murdering Mongolian woman Urantsetseg Tserendorj in ...

A woman whose three children were raped and sexually assaulted by her former partner has said the harm he inflicted was not ...

ONLY eight Albanian prisoners have been sent home to serve their sentences in an £8million scheme meant to return 200 killers ...

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EVIL paedophile Jack ­Manning is at the centre of a fresh Garda investigation, The Irish Sun can reveal. New complaints ...

Masatoshi Nakanishi was accused of taking photos of military facilities near Belarus' border with Ukraine and sharing them with Japanese intelligence. View on euronews ...