1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (436+ words) A 66-year-old has appeared in court charged with attempted murder linked to a bomb attack on a Belfast police station. Kieran Smyth from Beechmount Avenue in Belfast is also accused of causing an explosion, hijacking, and possession of a mobile…...

5+ hour, 39+ min ago  (1325+ words) The Central Bank and its Governor Gabriel Makhlouf have suffered an enormously embarrassing setback to the credibility of Ireland's system for regulating the individuals working in the financial sector. That vetting process is crucial to the country's international standing and…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago  (66+ words) RTE. ie To listen to RT. ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site. Report from the Special Criminal Court as sentencing hearing for Sean Mc Govern continues The sentencing…...

18+ hour, 46+ min ago  (140+ words) A 66-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following a dissident republican car bomb at a Belfast police station last weekend. The car exploded outside Dunmurry PSNI station on Saturday night after a hijacked delivery driver was forced to…...

21+ hour, 54+ min ago  (202+ words) A man in his 20s has appeared in court, charged in connection with a fatal house fire in Co Offaly last year. 22-year-old Michael Dunne, with an address in Co Kildare, appeared before a special sitting of Tullamore District Court this…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (436+ words) A 54-year-old healthcare assistant convicted of sexually assaulting a patient has been jailed for two years and nine months. Raymond Marmion, with an address at Nicholas Street, Dundalk, was working at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth,…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago  (1408+ words) A 40-year-old Sligo businessman who falsely imprisoned three 13-year-old boys, assaulted them and threatened to kill them has been sentenced to two years in prison. Cathal O'Connor of Farmhill Manor in Sligo, who employs more than 100 people, will begin his…...

20+ hour, 33+ min ago  (700+ words) A 51-year-old Romanian man who sexually assaulted three women at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison. Mihai Csiki, with an address in Germany, was sentenced before Drogheda Circuit…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (831+ words) The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has said the number of recognised criminal gangs in the prison system has almost doubled to 34 in the last year, with the number of gang members increasing by 25%. The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said that…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1102+ words) A man has been jailed for nine years for rape, after coercing a teenage girl into having sex with him by convincing her that he was a drugs lord and that she owed him "12, 000. Craig O'Connell, aged 26, from Hollyville, Hollyhill…...