Central Criminal Court

Farmer’s high profile 2005 manslaughter conviction was quashed and he was found not guilty in a retrial

David Dunne (40) found guilty of murder of Robert O’Connor by stamping on his head in a ‘vicious and unprovoked’ assault

Jurors also heard a description of footage of dogs being encouraged to attack a live kitten

The man pleaded guilty to 26 sample counts for crimes which occurred on dates between 2004 and 2019

Guenter Lohse set fire to home in Co Donegal after family plan to send him back to Germany, court heard

The court heard that the abuse continued for over 15 years

Robert Murphy (42) stabbed Jamie Kavanagh (24) in hostel on Dublin’s Harrington Street in April of last year

Judge informs jury in trial of Phelan for murder of Keith Conlon that prosecution case is close to conclusion

The jury heard that Gavin’s phone had searched for ‘prison sentence for murder in Ireland’ on the day before the stabbing

Victim tells court he has not slept properly since the assault in 2022

Brandon Gavin (22), who has pleaded not guilty, also contacted a woman on Tinder 20 minutes before Marius Mamaliga (19) was killed

The prosecution invited the 12 individual members of the jury to hold the Smith & Wesson handgun

Geunter Lohse had lived with his mother, Ruth, all his life and thought his family was going to remove him from Donegal house

Diarmuid Phelan has denied the murder of a trespasser on his farm in February 2022

Mihail Ciorici (41) jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to rape and oral rape of the college student in Fermoy

Patrick (aka PJ) Kelly (22) and Joseph Byrne (44), both of Corra Choill Park in Prosperous, were sentenced at the Central Criminal Court

Ruth Lawrence (42), originally from Clontarf, is accused of the murder of Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O’Connor (32), whose bodies were found in plastic sheeting on Inchicup Island

‘I stood up for myself and I was believed,’ says Kathleen Correia, who was raped and coercively controlled by her then husband, Sergio Correia

Man’s original term of 10½ years extended by four years for ‘unusual, shocking and extremely disturbing’ crimes

Keith Conlon and his friend ‘did not seem a danger’, farmworker tells court

Man who was shot was bleeding from the head and asking for help, jury told

Diarmuid Phelan denies murder of Keith Conlon on farm in Tallaght in February 2022

Victim says attention from Fergus Delaney made her feel wanted but she later realised initial text from him was ‘the beginning of the end of my childhood’

Philip Griffin (37) was charged with murdering Anthony O’Brien and Nadine O’Brien in Tralee in May 2012

The child was found at a house in the southwest of the country on March 13th, 2021. He died three days later in hospital in Dublin

Dean Caffrey (38) of Beaucourt, Achill Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Sean McCarthy (28)

Nicola Brennan (33) pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Juris Viktorovs in Co Wicklow two years ago

Ruth Lawrence charged with murder of two men whose bodies were found in 2014

Sentence of life in detention for youth, who used hammers to bludgeon 51-year-old and then posted video on Snapchat, to be reviewed after 15 years

Prison visits among other judicial training initiatives

Former Olympic swimming coach jailed for 10 years for raping young swimmer he groomed in 1989

Ms Justice Rind tells Anthony Byrne (55) it is difficult to understand how any sexual encounter with a child could be considered consensual

Wayne Higgins (27), of no fixed abode, was described by the woman as ‘an animal’ and ‘a danger to vulnerable women’

Judge jails Ricardo Hoey (21) and Jordan Deasy (20) for four years over death of 29-year-old in Carraigaline, Co Cork in 2022

Victim, now aged 24, says father defiled him in ‘worst ways possible’ but has clearly shown him how not to act if he wants to be a good person

Judge says despite ‘protestations of innocence’ by defendants the ‘only miscarriage of justice’ in case was death of Thomas Dooley (43)

The couple married in 1990 after the woman answered an ad listed as a ‘quiet man’ in Ireland’s Own magazine

James Kilroy sentenced to life in prison after failing to convince jury he was insane when he killed his wife

Cristian Gogosiou (37) of Mount Kenneth Place, Limerick threatened the woman with a knife and said he would ‘cut off her giblets’ before raping her, the court heard

James Kilroy was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court