Director of Public Prosecutions

Following decades of light-touch State regulation, the Law Reform Commission has adopted a degree of caution towards the prosecution of white-collar, (...)

Mounting regulation of auditors threatens to reduce the role to a meaningless “technical box-ticking” exercise, according to Michael Cawley, former Ry(...)

A corporate crime agency, similar to the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab), is one of the key recommendations of a major report on business and the law pub(...)

Gardaí are to prepare a file after arresting three members of a housing action campaign after they refused a request to leave Cork City Hall. They had(...)

Firework displays should be left to professionals and if that is not possible should only be handled by sensible and sober adults but never children, (...)

Brian Rattigan has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Declan Gavin and said he is sorry to the victim’s family and anyone else he has hurt. Ratti(...)

New criminal offences including “reckless trading” and “causing a financial institution to fail” should be introduced as part of an overhaul of white-(...)

A man in his 40s has been questioned by gardaí investigating the alleged rape of a 75-year old woman in Co Clare last week. Sources said the man invi(...)

The husband of Patricia O’Connor as well as her daughter, granddaughter and daughter’s ex-partner have appeared before Tallaght District Court charged(...)

A man who was on trial accused of murdering Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan in the driveway of his Dublin home has pleaded guilty to facilitating a criminal or(...)