Justice Tara Burns

A 25-year-old man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to helping facilitate the murder of David Douglas. Mr Douglas (55) was shot six t(...)

The Special Criminal Court had a 94 per cent conviction rate at trial last year, but the rate could be reduced in future following the acquittal of tw(...)

A woman who became pregnant after she was raped by a man introduced to her as “a good guy” who could help her, has said her daughter will never be his(...)

A meat factory worker has been jailed for nine years for using his boning knife to kill his housemate after losing hundreds of euro to him in poker. (...)

Two Limerick men have received sentences totalling 21 years after armed gardai stopped them in a car and found a loaded handgun, a petrol canister, la(...)

A father of three who raped a woman in the back of his car while on a trip to the beach has been jailed for six and a half years. The man (37), who c(...)

A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the murder trial of a Cavan meat factory worker, who killed his poker opponent with a knife from the fac(...)

A Co Clare man has been jailed for 12 years for twice raping a schoolgirl at his sister’s birthday party. Richard O’Mara (31), with an address at Wal(...)

People in Ireland do not vote because when the Government gets an answer it does not want, it makes people vote again, the chair of the Referendum Com(...)

A High Court judge has criticised a finance fund’s “cavalier” attitude to its dealings with a woman whose company operates a dairy farm in Co Tipperar(...)