Justice Tara Burns

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(...)

The government has announced the establishment of the referendum commission for the upcoming vote on reducing the waiting time for a divorce from four(...)

A Sligo man who had sex with a 14-year-old girl who told him she was two months pregnant has received a partially suspended sentence. The man (31), w(...)

A 32-year-old has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was convicted of the murder of a vulnerable 59-year-old man whom he assaulted and threw(...)