Political factors key to deciding if long-term prisoners stay in jailStudy says overall murder rate and media profile of convict are factors in decisionTue Mar 20 2018 - 00:00
Paddy Jackson ‘not looking for special treatment,’ rape trial told“So he plays for Ireland? So what? Don’t think he’s trying to play the rugby card’Fri Mar 16 2018 - 13:15
Belfast rape trial told ‘drunk consent is still consent’Lawyers for defence and prosecution make closing arguments in trial of Ireland rugby playersThu Mar 15 2018 - 16:02
Belfast rape trial told alleged attack ‘a throwback to days of male entitlement’Prosecution counsel begins closing address to jury at rugby players’ rape trialThu Mar 15 2018 - 13:08
Belfast rape trial will not hear evidence until tomorrowJury has been told it will begin deliberations by late next weekWed Mar 14 2018 - 13:25
Belfast trial: Harrison denies using ‘weasel words’ to comfort womanEvidence finishes in trial, closing speeches from counsel to be heard on WednesdayMon Mar 12 2018 - 15:12
Harrison tells court woman upset because ‘Paddy had rejected her’Belfast rape trial: Witness accused of perverting course of justice by misleading policeMon Mar 12 2018 - 01:30
Belfast trial: Paddy Jackson ‘last person in the world who would rape someone’Rugby player’s friend Rory Harrison denies trying to ‘manage’ woman at centre of caseSat Mar 10 2018 - 10:57
Three accused in rape trial say texts were ‘exaggeration’ and ‘banter’Prosecution homes in on discrepancy as accused take the standSat Mar 10 2018 - 01:53
Blane McIlroy denies he ‘got his lines wrong’ when talking to policeMan accused of exposing himself to woman directly after she was allegedly rapedFri Mar 09 2018 - 17:58
Belfast trial: Blane McIlroy denies woman was ‘in hysterics’Man accused of exposing himself to a woman directly after she was allegedly rapedFri Mar 09 2018 - 16:21
Stuart Olding denies offering ‘complete nonsense’ as evidenceRape accused says not fanciful that he would kiss woman ‘open mouthed’ after she gave teammate oral sexThu Mar 08 2018 - 14:55
Stuart Olding ‘not proud’ of texts exchanged after alleged rapeRugby player says reference to ‘she’ meant night out and ‘very loose’ meant good funThu Mar 08 2018 - 11:32
Paddy Jackson paints a picture of ‘the happiest man in Belfast’Ireland player had just finished a successful international tour at the time of alleged rapeWed Mar 07 2018 - 20:30
Paddy Jackson says he would have gone to police if told of rape allegationIreland rugby player tells trial he engaged in a ‘threesome or spitroast’ of womanWed Mar 07 2018 - 15:49
‘I wouldn’t do that’ - Paddy Jackson takes stand to deny raping womanRugby player tells jury his hobbies include miming to rap and drawing super heroesWed Mar 07 2018 - 11:40
Belfast rape case adjourned due to juror’s illnessJury members agree to sit on Saturday to make up for lost time in rugby players’ trialMon Mar 05 2018 - 13:06
Belfast rape trial gains insight into accuseds’ mindsetFocus on social media texts between rugby players as prosecution completes evidenceFri Mar 02 2018 - 19:05
Belfast rape trial: Stuart Olding originally faced vaginal rape chargeFailure to test rugby player’s clothing queried before prosecution finished caseThu Mar 01 2018 - 16:49
Belfast rape trial: Accused men boasted about sexual activityProsecuting counsel reads an agreed list of texts into the court recordWed Feb 28 2018 - 14:30
Belfast rape trial: Police officer denies trying to catch witness ‘off-guard’Rory Harrison is accused of perverting the course of justiceWed Feb 28 2018 - 12:35
Rape trial: Blaine McIlroy says woman was 'trying to pull' members of groupCo-accused Blane McIlroy says alleged victim tried to kiss him earlier in nightWed Feb 28 2018 - 01:00
Friend of rugby players denies ‘concocting’ story after alleged rapeRory Harrison is accused of destroying evidence and perverting the court of justiceTue Feb 27 2018 - 17:46
Stuart Olding did not recall alleged rape victim saying ‘not him too’Recordings of police interview with rugby player (24) played during Belfast trialTue Feb 27 2018 - 13:56
Woman ‘tried to pull’ several members of Jackson and Olding’s groupCourt hears Rory Harrison called Blane McIlroy to say woman from night out ‘might have cried rape’Tue Feb 27 2018 - 13:55
No evidence heard in Belfast rape trial due to juror’s illnessJudge says she still believes case will conclude by scheduled date of March 16thMon Feb 26 2018 - 11:54
ISPs slow to back Garda plan to block child sex abuse materialOnly one internet service provider has joined scheme to blacklist abuse sites since late 2013Mon Feb 26 2018 - 01:00
Belfast rape trial: Olding says woman invited him to join sexual activityBoth rugby players said oral sex took place but not intercourse as they had no condomsSat Feb 24 2018 - 01:00
Rugby players’ trial - weekly summary: ‘She didn’t have to stay, she could have left’Jury have been hearing from the accused what they say happened on June 28th, 2016Fri Feb 23 2018 - 20:55
Paddy Jackson: ‘I didn’t force myself on her. I presume she wanted it to happen’Rugby player says he strenuously denies the shocking allegations made against himFri Feb 23 2018 - 15:23
Belfast rape trial: case adjourned for a day due to juror illnessThe prosecution is entering the final stage of its evidence with case set to resume on FridayThu Feb 22 2018 - 13:28
Belfast trial hears findings of DNA analysis on alleged rape victim’s clothesStuart Olding’s semen found on jeans and underwear of complainant, court toldWed Feb 21 2018 - 16:40
Belfast trial: Doctor criticises medical examination of alleged rape victimWitness says video of examination left out critical informationWed Feb 21 2018 - 12:50
Belfast trial hears details of woman’s injuries after alleged rapeDoctor from Antrim sexual assault referral centre gives evidenceTue Feb 20 2018 - 17:52
Belfast trial hears Stuart Olding’s description of sex with alleged rape victimOlding’s house searched without his knowledge during police interviewTue Feb 20 2018 - 17:51
Pepper spray used by gardaí over 500 times in 2017Met Police and other UK forces use Tasers, which are not widely available to gardaíMon Feb 19 2018 - 20:00
Belfast rape trial: Week three evidence focused on before and afterSix women gave evidence after the complainantSat Feb 17 2018 - 12:52
Harrison told police alleged rape victim couldn’t stop staring at JacksonDetective tells Belfast Court Harrison said he had “no real conversation” with studentFri Feb 16 2018 - 13:07
Police officer guessed alleged rapists were Ulster Rugby playersFriend of alleged victim says ‘rape is rape’ regardless of profession of those involvedThu Feb 15 2018 - 18:18
‘Utter scum’ - Belfast rape trial hears of text exchangeFriend of alleged rape victim describes how she tried to convince her to go to policeWed Feb 14 2018 - 11:49
‘I’ve just seen a threesome’ - partygoers give evidence at Belfast rape trialWoman tells Jackson-Olding trial there was ‘no distress’ in sexual activity she witnessedTue Feb 13 2018 - 17:16
Alleged rape victim accused of alternating between ‘truth, untruth and self-delusion’Cross-examination of woman finishes after seven days in witness box at Jackson-Olding trialMon Feb 12 2018 - 17:41
Plans to restrict environmental legal challenges approved‘I would say the one thing that unites all of us is an absolute love of local environment’Mon Feb 12 2018 - 13:40
Experts say little evidence of bad faith objections to major projectsGovernment seeking to restrict court challenges to major projects after Apple delaysMon Feb 12 2018 - 01:39
Alleged victims in UCC harassment case asked to sign confidentiality agreementsLecturer accused of attempting to engage in inappropriate conductMon Feb 12 2018 - 01:35
Michael Colgan ran Gate Theatre as personal fiefdom for decadesReaction to report of independent inquiry into allegations has been mixedFri Feb 09 2018 - 23:27
Michael Colgan event given Arts Council funds despite warningsAgency granted support to the World Actors Forum amid concerns it was not ‘prudent’Fri Feb 09 2018 - 05:00
Gsoc takes case against Special Criminal Court over transcriptsOmbudsman investigating circumstances surrounding murder of Garda Tony GoldenWed Feb 07 2018 - 01:00
Ten per cent of online child sex abuse images feature infantsAverage viewer of child abuse material ‘a middle-aged married man with children’Tue Feb 06 2018 - 01:10
‘Broken’ health care system to blame for huge rise in opioid use, say GPsPrescriptions for powerful painkillers increased by over 1,000% in the last decadeMon Feb 05 2018 - 10:59
