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A Mullingar-based chef who raped a young woman after inviting her back to his apartment for a party has been sentenced to seven years in prison, with the final year suspended, after a fourth trial.

Two of murdered publican Tom Nevin's siblings have asked the High Court this week to rule that evidence from the murder trial is admissible as part of a fresh civil action.

A conviction against Galway County Councillor Michael Fahy for obtaining €7,000 from the local authority by false pretences was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal earlier this week.

The Kilkenny man who murdered a mother and her two daughters has had the sentences for the murder of the two little girls altered to run concurrently with the life sentence imposed for the rape and murder of their mother.

A Chinese national who murdered a Kilkenny postmaster in 2006 has had his murder conviction reaffirmed by the Appeals Court in Dublin this week.

A former teacher and Marist brother from Claremorris received a 12-month sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this week for 35 charges of sexual abuse against four young boys at a Sligo school — however the 66-year-old man walked free from court.

A former Marist brother and primary school teacher has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of 35 charges of sexually abusing four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago.

A former Marist brother and primary school teacher has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of 35 charges of sexually abusing four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago.

A PART-TIME postman from Mullingar who raped and sexually assaulted a woman in her isolated rural home over an 11-year period in the 1980s and 1990s has lost, by a three to two majority, his Supreme Court appeal against conviction.